Sarah Waters Love Quotations

I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.

I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.

Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

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?

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.