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• She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free.

  Sarah Waters

  Cutting, Hair, Wings

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• Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.

  Sarah Waters

  Writing, Mad, Trying

  "Sarah Waters's rules for writers". www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.

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• I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

  Sarah Waters

  Hate, Sky, Flying

  "Sarah Waters: 'As I get older I think less nimbly and feel more keenly'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2014.

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• I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.

  Sarah Waters

  Mad, Said, Nothing But The Truth

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• ..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.

  Sarah Waters

  Feelings, Skins, Sickness

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.293, Penguin

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

  Sarah Waters

  Love, Heart, Done

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Affinity”, p.351, Penguin

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• 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?

  Sarah Waters

  Love, Loneliness, Counting

  Sarah Waters (2014). “The Paying Guests”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

  Sarah Waters

  Reading, Months, World

  Sarah Waters (2006). “The Night Watch”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.

  Sarah Waters

  War, Book, Character

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• We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

  Sarah Waters

  Sweet, Believe, Oysters

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• 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 Waters

  Real, Heart, Kind

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• .. 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.

  Sarah Waters

  Thinking, Mad, Longing

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.299, Penguin

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• 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.

  Sarah Waters

  Girl, Eye, Shadow

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• 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.

  Sarah Waters

  Littles, Way, Climate

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

  Sarah Waters

  Wall, Mind, Victorian

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• All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

  Sarah Waters

  Writing, Can Do, I Can

  "Hot Waters". www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2002.

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