Sarah Waters

Tipping the Velvet

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  • Jenis Lhaokunlavanichhas quoted2 years ago
    They walked together, and the world smiled to see it! They embraced on the street, and strangers were glad! While all the time I lived pale as a worm, cast out from pleasure, from comfort and ease.
  • Jenis Lhaokunlavanichhas quoted2 years ago
    a quick, sharp, agonised cry, as if the paper was hot and had burned me. The cry became a low, ragged moan that went on, and on, until I wondered that I had breath enough left to make it.
  • Kingahas quoted4 years ago
    I suspected that my boots had worn their way right through my stockings, and had started on the bare flesh of my toes and heels and ankles
  • Kingahas quoted4 years ago
    You little slut!’ she said. ‘You little trollop! You whore, you harlot, you strumpet, you bitch!
  • Kingahas quoted4 years ago
    They did her a cold roast after the manner of the Romans, goose stuffed with turkey stuffed with chicken stuffed with quail - the quail, I think, having a truffle in it.
  • Kingahas quoted4 years ago
    I knew winter had arrived only when Diana’s walking-dresses changed from silk to corduroy, her cloaks from grenadine to sable; and when my own closet rail sagged with astrakhan, and camel’s-hair, and tweed.
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