Quotes from Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

Don't you be thinking, ' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come.

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

But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.

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