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

“It was only later that I wondered about it and tried to look back. But by then 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

“You pearl!”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“PIGEON MY ARSE!”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“And I made another curtsey, and winked.—Two curious things to do together, as it happened, and I would not recommend you try it: for I fear the wink unbalanced the curtsey; and I’m certain the curtsey threw off the wink.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“The woman untied her pojagi and removed a small bag and a small bundle wrapped in a scarf. She headed to the station house, taking small staccato steps like a Japanese woman in a kimono. How habits stick with us, he thought. They seep into our bodies until we don't even recognize them as having come from outside ourselves. Everything inside at one time outside”
― Heinz Insu Fenkl, Skull Water

“Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World