Quotes About Sarah Waters

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English winter!

I sleep, and dream I am moving, swiftly, in a high-prowed boat, upon a dark and silent water.

You have been put too much to literary work,' he said on one of his visits, 'and that is the cause of your complaint.

I said, Had they any Jewesses? and she answered that there were always a number of Jewesses, and they liked to make 'a particular trouble' over the preparation of their dishes. She had encountered that sort of behaviour, amongst the Jewesses, at other prisons.

They would say my nerve had failed me. They would laugh in my face! I had a certain standing. I was the daughter of a murderess.