180 Quotes by Sarah Waters

Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.

She said, ‘It is filled with all the words for how I want you.

The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger...

But for now there was this, and it was enough, it was more than they could have hoped for: the two of them in their stone corner, their dark clothes bleeding into the dusk, lights being kindled across the city, and a few pale stars in the sky.

Altogether, there was an air of health and easy power about her – as if she could no more help being robust, I thought with a trace of admiration, than a beautiful woman could help good looks.

We see what a punishing business it is, simply being alive.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do.

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.

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.