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Sarah Waters is a renowned British contemporary novelist, born on July 21, 1966. Her works are known for their delicate emotional descriptions and profound social insights, particularly for her focus on female emotions and gender issues. Her notable works include 'Fictional Holmes' and 'Tipping the Velvet'.

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“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.”

Love Heart Unrequited Love Stay

Book:Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me.”

Want Love Heart Feelings Hurt Lust Thread Wanting Tugging Sarah Waters Fingersmith

Book:Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.”

Heart Mines Gas Coins Pipe Meter Perks

Book:Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“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.”

Humans Heart Water Can Do Grief Sorrow Sad Limits Add Moving On Grieving Salt Human Heart

Author:Sarah Waters

“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.”

Ifs Heart Hard Happens Lying Felt Waiting Sides Hurt My Heart Kissing Mouths Hundred Breaths Rose Thread It Hurts Hurt Me Tugging

Book:Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.”

Heart Hard Tears Like You

Book:Fingersmith

Source: 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.”

Heart Kind Real Terrible Burden Heavy Shoulders Heaviness

Author:Sarah Waters

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

Love Feels Heart Done Lasts Grows Wonder My Heart Thread

Book:Affinity

Source: Affinity

“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.”

Heart Felt Steps Movement Grew My Heart Legs Defined Dolls Every Step Trunks

Author:Sarah Waters

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Born: July 21, 1966
Known for: Novelist
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