There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.
("Fingersmith")
More Quotes from 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.Sarah Waters
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.
Sarah Waters
Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.
Sarah Waters
They was told it too, perhaps. Does that make it true? Maybe. Maybe not.
Sarah Waters
It's a curious, wanting thing.
Sarah Waters
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.
Sarah Waters
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: derangedIs it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
Leon Kass
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Karl Jaspers
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.
Norman Lear