“She let her head sink, until her brow met the varnished glass. How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did it, for men and women. They could stand in a street and argue, flirt – they could kiss, make love, do anything at all – and the world indulged them. Whereas she and Julia –.”

“She let her head sink, until her brow met the varnished glass. How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did it, for men and women. They could stand in a street and argue, flirt – they could kiss, make love, do anything at all – and the world indulged them. Whereas she and Julia –.”

— Sarah Waters