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.. this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin. (Sarah Waters)
Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her. View quote
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It's a curious, wanting thing. View quote
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I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours. View quote
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And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed. View quote
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What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you... Look. View quote
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Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it? View quote
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Even ashes are a part of your freedom. View quote
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Why is it we can never love the people we ought to? View quote
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I barely knew I had skin before I met you. View quote
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We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy. (Sarah Waters)
It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart. View quote
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She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks. View quote
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I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded. View quote
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With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk. View quote
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life is crap but, every day is an experience. View quote
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I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her. View quote
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Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled? View quote
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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. View quote
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I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own. View quote
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My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. (Sarah Waters)
I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels. View quote
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I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing. View quote
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Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don't you? View quote
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The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger... View quote
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