Sarah Waters

Novelist

1966-07-21

Books by Sarah Waters

Tipping the Velvet
View on Amazon
Fingersmith
View on Amazon
The Little Stranger
View on Amazon

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Quotes by Sarah Waters

She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.
Read quote
I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart— so hard, it hurt me.
Read quote
But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.
Read quote
Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.
Read quote
Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?
Read quote
She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...
Read quote
One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and when I woke, it was to the sound of my own weeping. For I had hoped to open my eyes on Heaven, where my father was; and they had only pulled me back to Hell.
Read quote
One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and when I woke, it was to the sound of my own weeping. For I had hoped to open my eyes on Heaven, where my father was; and they had only pulled me back to Hell.
Read quote
But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.
Read quote
She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...
Read quote
I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart— so hard, it hurt me.
Read quote
Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.
Read quote
She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.
Read quote
Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?
Read quote
Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.
Read quote
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.
Read quote
Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.
Read quote
I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.
Read quote