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Sarah Waters è una scrittrice gallese nota per i suoi romanzi ambientati nell'epoca vittoriana con protagoniste lesbiche, come Ladra e Carezze di velluto. È stata considerata tra i finalisti del Booker Prize per tre volte. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Luglio 1966
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“E feci un'altra riverenza strizzando l'occhio. Due cose curiose da fare assieme, e non vi consiglierei di provare: poiché temo che la strizzatina d'occhio abbia sbilanciato la riverenza, e sono certa che la riverenza abbia sciupato la strizzatina.”

Sarah Waters libro Ladra

Fingersmith

“Eppure, anche membra di cera devono cedere alla fine al calore delle mani che le muovono. Arriva una notte in cui, finalmente, mi arrendo alle sue.”

Sarah Waters libro Ladra

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters: Frasi in inglese

“And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.”

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Sarah Waters libro The Little Stranger

Origine: The Little Stranger

“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”

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Sarah Waters libro The Paying Guests

Origine: The Paying Guests

“It's a curious, wanting thing.”

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Sarah Waters libro Ladra

Origine: Fingersmith

“Being in love, you know… it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.”

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Sarah Waters libro Tipping the Velvet

Origine: Tipping the Velvet

“Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?”

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Sarah Waters Affinity

Origine: Affinity

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

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Sarah Waters libro Ladra

Origine: Fingersmith

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

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Sarah Waters libro Ladra

Origine: Fingersmith

“Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don’t you?”

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Sarah Waters libro The Paying Guests

Origine: The Paying Guests

“Even ashes are a part of your freedom.”

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Sarah Waters libro Ladra

Origine: Fingersmith

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

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Sarah Waters Affinity

Origine: Affinity

“But, here was a curious thing. The more 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 idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.”

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Sarah Waters libro Ladra

Origine: Fingersmith

“We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.”

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Sarah Waters libro Ladra

Origine: Fingersmith

“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.”

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Sarah Waters libro Tipping the Velvet

Origine: Tipping the Velvet

“She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.”

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Sarah Waters The Night Watch

Origine: The Night Watch

“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.”

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Sarah Waters libro Ladra

Origine: Fingersmith

“With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.”

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Sarah Waters libro Tipping the Velvet

Origine: Tipping the Velvet

“life is crap but, every day is an experience”

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Sarah Waters The Night Watch

Origine: The Night Watch

“I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”

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