Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?
Sarah WatersIt was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders โ a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.
Sarah WatersWe 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 WatersRespect your characters, even the ยญminor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about what your minor characters' stories are, even though they may intersect only slightly with your protagonist's.
Sarah Waters