But he was not like Walter, who might take his pleasure where he chose it. His pleasure had turned, at the last, to a kind of grief; and his love was a love so fierce and so secret it must be satisfied, with a stranger, in a reeking court like this. I knew about that kind of love. I knew how it was to bare your palpitating heart, and be fearful as you did so that the beats should come too loudly, and betray you.

Sarah Waters


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There seemed something rather devotional about her pose, the still­ness, so that I thought at last, She is praying!, and made to draw my eyes away in sudden shame. But then she stirred. Her hands opened, she raised them to her cheek, and I caught a flash of colour against the pink of her work-roughened palms. She had a flower there, between her fingers—a violet, with a drooping stem. As I watched, she put the flower to her lips, and breathed upon it, and the purple of the petals gave a quiver and seemed to glow . . .

Sarah Waters

Stichwörter: affinity



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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.

Sarah Waters


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There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

Sarah Waters


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I would go down to the kitchen, saying 'How do you do?' to whoever I met there: ...'How are you, Mrs. Cakebread?' (That was the cook: that really was her name, it wasn't a joke and no-one laughed it it.)

Sarah Waters


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Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.

Sarah Waters


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The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.

Sarah Waters


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Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

Sarah Waters


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And so you see it is love- not scorn,not malice; only love- that makes me harm her, in the end.

Sarah Waters

Stichwörter: maud-lilly



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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.

Sarah Waters

Stichwörter: heartbreak



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