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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
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"We have a name for your affliction. We call it a hyper-artful one. Yous take been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - and so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I about rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are yous waiting? Go back to her side! Simply every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't prevarication beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her jiff upon my rima oris, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't accept kissed her, without wanting to save her."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"It's a curious, wanting thing."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"Simply, here was a curious matter. The more than I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the thought of her out of my heart, the more than she stayed there."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "Information technology is filled with all the words for how I want you...Expect."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, similar a sickness. it covers me, like skin."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"She was like milk - as well pale, too pure, besides uncomplicated. She was made to be spoiled."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"...but when she saw me turn to her she reached and took my manus. She took it, not to be led past me, not to be comforted; only to hold it, because information technology was mine."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"Even ashes are a part of your freedom."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"Words, hmm? They seduce us in darkness, and the mind apparel and fashions them to fashions of its own."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing merely the truth, and existence thought to be deluded."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"Weep all the artful tears you similar. You shall never make my hard middle the softer."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"The bad blood rose in me, simply like wine."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"It was only after that I wondered about information technology and tried to look back. But by and so I could only see that there was once a time when we had walked apart; and then a time when we walked together."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"It was similar kissing the darkness. Every bit if the darkness had life, had a shape, had sense of taste, was warm and glib."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"At that place is no patience so terrible every bit that of the deranged."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

".. now i begin to feel a longing and then great, so sharp, i fearfulness it will never be assuaged. i recollect information technology will mountain, and mountain, and make me mad, or kill me."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"Oh, just this,' I think I say, 'is perfect! This is all I have longed for! What are you gazing at? Practise yous suppose a daughter is sitting here? That girl is lost! She has been drowned! She is lying, fathoms deep. Do you think she has artillery and legs, with mankind and cloth upon them? Do y'all think she has hair? She has but bones, stripped white! She is as white as a folio of newspaper! She is a book, from which the words have peeled and drifted--"
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"But the more I think it, the more I desire her, the more than my want rises and swells."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the calorie-free."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"...For I could not desire her at present, more than than I could a lover.
Merely I could not want a lover, more than than I desire liberty."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"I felt that thread that had come up betwixt us, tugging, tugging at my center—so hard, it hurt me."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"My happiness is nothing to him," she said. "Only his books! He has fabricated me like a volume. I am non meant to be taken, and touched, and liked. I am meant to go along here, in dim light, forever!"
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"Everybody in my world knew that regular work was merely another name for beingness robbed and dying of boredom."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"I accept some knowledge of the fourth dimension that may exist misspent, clinging to fictions and supposing them truths."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"Is this desire? How queer that I, of all people, should not know! But I thought desire smaller, neater; I supposed information technology bound to its own organs equally taste is bound to the mouth, vision to the middle. This feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. It covers me, like skin."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"But it'southward the simple and the good that are meant to endure in this world—ain't information technology, though!"
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"They was told information technology too, perhaps. Does that brand information technology true? Maybe. Maybe not."
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

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