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 WatersThere 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 WatersTags: affinity
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 WatersThere is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.
Sarah WatersI 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 WatersWeep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.
Sarah WatersThe bad blood rose in me, just like wine.
Sarah WatersEven ashes are a part of your freedom.
Sarah WatersAnd so you see it is love- not scorn,not malice; only love- that makes me harm her, in the end.
Sarah WatersTags: maud-lilly
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 WatersTags: heartbreak
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