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Diane Setterfield quotes: I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.
Diane Setterfield quotes: But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children. But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.
Diane Setterfield quotes: I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is. I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.
Diane Setterfield quotes: A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story. A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
Diane Setterfield quotes: A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic. A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
Diane Setterfield quotes: We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives. We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Writing is more about discovery than invention. Writing is more about discovery than invention.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember. Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
Diane Setterfield quotes: What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?
Diane Setterfield quotes: [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks. [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.
Diane Setterfield quotes: On those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived. On those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived.
Diane Setterfield quotes: As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living. As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
Diane Setterfield quotes: I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.
Diane Setterfield quotes: But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
Diane Setterfield quotes: If you dazzle a man with green eyes, he'll be so hypnotized that he won't notice there is something inside the eyes spying on him. If you dazzle a man with green eyes, he'll be so hypnotized that he won't notice there is something inside the eyes spying on him.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly? Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?
Diane Setterfield quotes: Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I loved books more than people.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Since we are on the topic of ravens, a collective noun for ravens is an unkindness. This is somewhat puzzling to Thought and Memory. Since we are on the topic of ravens, a collective noun for ravens is an unkindness. This is somewhat puzzling to Thought and Memory.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
Diane Setterfield quotes: No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night. No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. Opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
Diane Setterfield quotes: My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Tragedy alters everything. Tragedy alters everything.
Diane Setterfield quotes: In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant. In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.
Diane Setterfield quotes: For me to see is to read. It has always been that way. For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.
Diane Setterfield quotes: And is it better to know?" he asked me."I can't tell you. But once you know, it's impossible to go back. And is it better to know?" he asked me.
"I can't tell you. But once you know, it's impossible to go back.
Diane Setterfield quotes: To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see. To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.
Diane Setterfield quotes: When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void. When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.
Diane Setterfield quotes: My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Seventeen years being neither a very short nor a very long time, Phillip was remembered and misremembered in equal measure. Seventeen years being neither a very short nor a very long time, Phillip was remembered and misremembered in equal measure.
Diane Setterfield quotes: I'd expected that I would expand to fit the experience automatically, that I would get my first glimpse of the person I was destined to be. I'd expected that I would expand to fit the experience automatically, that I would get my first glimpse of the person I was destined to be.
Diane Setterfield quotes: I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Life is compost. Life is compost.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform. Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
Diane Setterfield quotes: One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people. One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course. Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
Diane Setterfield quotes: The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now. The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant. Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection, but Angelfield was an odd fellow, and there it was. Ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection, but Angelfield was an odd fellow, and there it was.
Diane Setterfield quotes: In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid. In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.
Diane Setterfield quotes: She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it. She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.
Diane Setterfield quotes: He has explained why it is that ambiguity touches his heart more nearly than the death and marriage style of finish that i prefer. He has explained why it is that ambiguity touches his heart more nearly than the death and marriage style of finish that i prefer.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Her eyes were too full of beauty to leave room for anything so mundane as intelligence. Her eyes were too full of beauty to leave room for anything so mundane as intelligence.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words.
Diane Setterfield quotes: For it must be very lonely being dead. For it must be very lonely being dead.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Miss Winter restored to me the virginal qualities of the novice reader, and then with her stories she ravished me. Miss Winter restored to me the virginal qualities of the novice reader, and then with her stories she ravished me.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.
Diane Setterfield quotes: I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Someone had told him once that the desire to do something well is a good indicator of talent. Someone had told him once that the desire to do something well is a good indicator of talent.
Diane Setterfield quotes: The doctor knew his wife was beautiful, but they had been married too long for it to make any difference to him. The doctor knew his wife was beautiful, but they had been married too long for it to make any difference to him.
Diane Setterfield quotes: We live like latecomers at the theatre; we must catch up as best we can, dividing the beginning from the shape of later events. We live like latecomers at the theatre; we must catch up as best we can, dividing the beginning from the shape of later events.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent. Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Perhaps it didn't matter, I told myself. Who was there to miss me? No one would suffer from my going. That was a blessing. Perhaps it didn't matter, I told myself. Who was there to miss me? No one would suffer from my going. That was a blessing.
Diane Setterfield quotes: What better place to kill time than a library? What better place to kill time than a library?
Diane Setterfield quotes: They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls. They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls.
Diane Setterfield quotes: The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most. The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most.
Diane Setterfield quotes: We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events.
Diane Setterfield quotes: People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
Diane Setterfield quotes: There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere. There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Reading can be dangerous. Reading can be dangerous.
Diane Setterfield quotes: What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
Diane Setterfield quotes: There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas. There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times. Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.
Diane Setterfield quotes: But he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood. But he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.
Diane Setterfield quotes: People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity. People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.
Diane Setterfield quotes: I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child.
Diane Setterfield quotes: An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues; it is nothing that a good night's sleep cannot cure. An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues; it is nothing that a good night's sleep cannot cure.
Diane Setterfield quotes: A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
Diane Setterfield quotes: L'appetit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes by eating. Your appetite will come back, but it must be met halfway. You must want it to come. L'appetit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes by eating. Your appetite will come back, but it must be met halfway. You must want it to come.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Ordinary people, untwins, seek their soulmate, take lovers, marry. Tormented by their incompleteness they strive to be part of a pair. Ordinary people, untwins, seek their soulmate, take lovers, marry. Tormented by their incompleteness they strive to be part of a pair.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story.
Diane Setterfield quotes: It was not the sun, but the moonlight that shimmered in the garden, edging the leaves with silver and touching the outlines of the statuary figures. It was not the sun, but the moonlight that shimmered in the garden, edging the leaves with silver and touching the outlines of the statuary figures.
Diane Setterfield quotes: She was a do-gooder, She was a do-gooder,
Diane Setterfield quotes: Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect. Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
Diane Setterfield quotes: I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten. I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.
Diane Setterfield quotes: It doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they go, they're gone for good. It doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they go, they're gone for good.
Diane Setterfield quotes: Endings that are muted, but which echo longer in the memory than louder, more explosive denouements. Endings that are muted, but which echo longer in the memory than louder, more explosive denouements.
Diane Setterfield quotes: She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
Diane Setterfield quotes: For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist.

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