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But it's the simple and the good that are meant to suffer in this world—ain't it, though!

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

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

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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.

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

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It made me giddy. It made me blush, worse than before. It was like liquor. It made me drunk. I drew away. When her breath came now upon my mouth, it came very cold. My mouth was wet, from hers. I said, in a whisper,'Do you feel it?

Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
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She was about to be married, and was frightened to death. And no-one would love her, ever again.

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But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick.

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For she was the only one, of all of them, to have spared me a pleasant word; and suddenly I longed for time to pass, not for its own sake, but as it would take me back to her.

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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.

Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
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