Fingersmith Quotes

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I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.

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

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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?

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

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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.

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It's a curious, wanting thing.

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The dark has a eased a little. There has been a street-lamp burning, that has lit the threads of the bleached net scarf hung at the window, now it is put out. The light turns filthy pink. The pink gives way to sickly yellow. It creeps, and with it cr...

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- I had thought of the morning like an egg that had split with a crack and was spreading. Before us lay all the green of the green country of England, with its rivers and it's roads and it's hedges, it's churches, it's chimneys, it's rising threads o...

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

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