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Sarah Waters Quote: “She had a vision of the work she had done on the house in the past few years, all the wooden floors and panels she had polished, all the glass, all the plate; and instead of resenting the fire for threatening to snatch these things from her, she wanted to give them all up in a sort of orgy of surrender.”

101. “She had a vision of the work she had done on the house in the past few years, all the wooden floors and panels she had polished, all the glass, all the plate; and instead of resenting the fire for threatening to snatch these things from her, she wanted to give them all up in a sort of orgy of surrender.”

— Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters Quote: “We are not here to help them, ma’am. We are here to punish them. There are too many good women who are poor or ill or hungry, for us to bother with the bad ones.”

102. “We are not here to help them, ma’am. We are here to punish them. There are too many good women who are poor or ill or hungry, for us to bother with the bad ones.”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.”

103. “She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.”

— Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters Quote: “I thought I longed for her, before. 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.”

104. “I thought I longed for her, before. 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.”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “She said that; and I knew then that, careful as I have been – still and secret and silent as I have been, in my high room – she has been watching me, as Miss Ridley watches, and Miss Haxby.”

105. “She said that; and I knew then that, careful as I have been – still and secret and silent as I have been, in my high room – she has been watching me, as Miss Ridley watches, and Miss Haxby.”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “A man ought to be a source of shame to his father, don’t you think? If I ever have a son, I hope he makes my life hell. How, otherwise, will there ever be any progress?”

106. “A man ought to be a source of shame to his father, don’t you think? If I ever have a son, I hope he makes my life hell. How, otherwise, will there ever be any progress?”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “To forget words, common words, because your habits are so narrow you need only know a hundred hard phrases – stone, soup, comb, Bible, needle, dark, prisoner, walk, stand still, look sharp, look sharp!”

107. “To forget words, common words, because your habits are so narrow you need only know a hundred hard phrases – stone, soup, comb, Bible, needle, dark, prisoner, walk, stand still, look sharp, look sharp!”

— Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters Quote: “One gets paid back in the way one deserves.”

108. “One gets paid back in the way one deserves.”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “We can’t go on like this. Look at you! It’s killing you! And I – I can’t do it any longer, not the way we’ve been doing it till now... I can’t share you with something that passes itself off as a marriage, but is really habit and pride and... empty embraces, or worse. If I loved you less, I might be able to, but – I can’t. I won’t.”

109. “We can’t go on like this. Look at you! It’s killing you! And I – I can’t do it any longer, not the way we’ve been doing it till now... I can’t share you with something that passes itself off as a marriage, but is really habit and pride and... empty embraces, or worse. If I loved you less, I might be able to, but – I can’t. I won’t.”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “You wait ’til you’re my age, and wake every morning to gaze on the vast tract of uncreased linen that is the other side of the divan. Try being gallant to that... We shan’t even have children, don’t forget, to look after us in our old age.”

110. “You wait ’til you’re my age, and wake every morning to gaze on the vast tract of uncreased linen that is the other side of the divan. Try being gallant to that... We shan’t even have children, don’t forget, to look after us in our old age.”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “Now, from the crown of my head to the curve of my toe-nails, there was an unguent for every part of me – oil for my eyebrows and cream for my lashes; a jar of tooth-powder, a box of blanc-de-perle; polish for my fingernails and a scarlet stick to redden my mouth; tweezers for drawing the hairs from my nipples, and a stone to take the hard flesh from my heels.”

111. “Now, from the crown of my head to the curve of my toe-nails, there was an unguent for every part of me – oil for my eyebrows and cream for my lashes; a jar of tooth-powder, a box of blanc-de-perle; polish for my fingernails and a scarlet stick to redden my mouth; tweezers for drawing the hairs from my nipples, and a stone to take the hard flesh from my heels.”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “If people like me don’t work, it’s because they look at the world, at all the injustice and the muck, and all they see is a nation falling in upon itself, and taking them with it. But the muck has new things growing out of it – wonderful things! – new habits of working, new kinds of people, new ways of being alive and in love...”

112. “If people like me don’t work, it’s because they look at the world, at all the injustice and the muck, and all they see is a nation falling in upon itself, and taking them with it. But the muck has new things growing out of it – wonderful things! – new habits of working, new kinds of people, new ways of being alive and in love...”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “But the words came from me, I seemed to feel the shape and taste of them as they left my mouth. I might have sat there and been sick upon the table – they could not have silenced me.”

113. “But the words came from me, I seemed to feel the shape and taste of them as they left my mouth. I might have sat there and been sick upon the table – they could not have silenced me.”

— Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters Quote: “That is all he says. But in his face I see, at last, how much I want her.”

114. “That is all he says. But in his face I see, at last, how much I want her.”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “But Helen, Helen,’ I said, ’if they expect it to be hard, why don’t they change things, to allow it to be easier?”

115. “But Helen, Helen,’ I said, ’if they expect it to be hard, why don’t they change things, to allow it to be easier?”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “Or were those trifles all you had? Oughtn’t you, precisely, to preserve them? To make little crystal drops of them, that you could keep, like charms on a bracelet, to tell against danger when next it came?”

116. “Or were those trifles all you had? Oughtn’t you, precisely, to preserve them? To make little crystal drops of them, that you could keep, like charms on a bracelet, to tell against danger when next it came?”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “You may say that, now Dawes has gone. You didn’t think our locks so hard – nor our matrons, perhaps – when they kept her neat and close, for you to gaze at!”

117. “You may say that, now Dawes has gone. You didn’t think our locks so hard – nor our matrons, perhaps – when they kept her neat and close, for you to gaze at!”

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Sarah Waters Quote: “Everything has changed. Nothing has changed, at all. She has put back my flesh; but flesh will close, will seal, will scar and harden.”

118. “Everything has changed. Nothing has changed, at all. She has put back my flesh; but flesh will close, will seal, will scar and harden.”

— Sarah Waters

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