Quotes by Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters

.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.

Longing

Mad

Thinking

..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.

Feelings

Sickness

Skins

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

Can Do

I Can

Writing

All unwillingly I opened my eyes – then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl – I knew it at once! – that I had ever seen.

Eye

Girl

Shadow

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.

Grief

Moving On

Sad

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.

Being In Love

Cages

Love You

Cut like crazy. Less is more. I’ve often read manuscripts – including my own – where I’ve got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.

Character

Crazy

Moving

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

Ashes

Your Freedom

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

Counting

Loneliness

Love

How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?” She answered, “She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.

Air

Doe

Soul

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Air

Art

Ashes

Before I Met You

Being In Love

Believe

Blood

Book

Bricks

Cages

Can Do

Character

Climate

Coins

Counting

Crap

Crazy

Curious

Cutting

Deranged

Doe

Dolls

Done

Eye

Feelings

Flying

Gentleman

Girl

Grateful

Grief

Hair

Hate

Heart

Hero

House

Hurt

I Can

Indulge Yourself

Kind

Kissing

Life Is

Like You

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Littles

Loneliness

Longing

Looks

Love

Love You

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Quotes by Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters

.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.

..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

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.

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.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

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