"Passer les mirroirs [...] ça demande de s'affronter soi-même."

"What I have wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art."
This is only of the essays that was a treat to read.

"I want you to look at me."

"Listen. Dead people never stop talking."

"I was a solitary girl, in a city that favoured sweethearts and gentlemen; a girl in a city where girls walked only to be gazed at."

Enjoying my second Sarah Waters book. Different from Fingersmith but she weaves such a fascinating world. Girls who love girls, music hall stars and 1890s London.