Top 64 Quotes & Sayings by Sarah Waters - Page 2

Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether its terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.

What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.

All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.

I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.