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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

But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children. — Diane Setterfield

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is. — Diane Setterfield

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

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

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives. — Diane Setterfield

Writing is more about discovery than invention. — Diane Setterfield

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember. — Diane Setterfield

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? — Diane Setterfield

[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

On those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived. — Diane Setterfield

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living. — Diane Setterfield

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. — Diane Setterfield

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

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

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly? — Diane Setterfield

Of course I loved books more than people. — Diane Setterfield

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

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. — Diane Setterfield

No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night. — Diane Setterfield

Opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. — Diane Setterfield

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. — Diane Setterfield

Tragedy alters everything. — Diane Setterfield

In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant. — Diane Setterfield

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way. — Diane Setterfield

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

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

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void. — Diane Setterfield

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. — Diane Setterfield

Seventeen years being neither a very short nor a very long time, Phillip was remembered and misremembered in equal measure. — Diane Setterfield

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

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. — Diane Setterfield

Life is compost. — Diane Setterfield

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform. — Diane Setterfield

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people. — Diane Setterfield

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course. — Diane Setterfield

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

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant. — Diane Setterfield

Ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection, but Angelfield was an odd fellow, and there it was. — Diane Setterfield

In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid. — Diane Setterfield

She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it. — Diane Setterfield

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

Her eyes were too full of beauty to leave room for anything so mundane as intelligence. — Diane Setterfield

Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. — Diane Setterfield

For it must be very lonely being dead. — Diane Setterfield

Miss Winter restored to me the virginal qualities of the novice reader, and then with her stories she ravished me. — Diane Setterfield

Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. — Diane Setterfield

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

Someone had told him once that the desire to do something well is a good indicator of talent. — Diane Setterfield

The doctor knew his wife was beautiful, but they had been married too long for it to make any difference to him. — Diane Setterfield

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

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent. — Diane Setterfield

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

What better place to kill time than a library? — Diane Setterfield

They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls. — Diane Setterfield

The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most. — Diane Setterfield

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

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them. — Diane Setterfield

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere. — Diane Setterfield

Reading can be dangerous. — Diane Setterfield

What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? — Diane Setterfield

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

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

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

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity. — Diane Setterfield

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

An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues; it is nothing that a good night's sleep cannot cure. — Diane Setterfield

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. — Diane Setterfield

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

Ordinary people, untwins, seek their soulmate, take lovers, marry. Tormented by their incompleteness they strive to be part of a pair. — Diane Setterfield

Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. — Diane Setterfield

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

She was a do-gooder, — Diane Setterfield

Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect. — Diane Setterfield

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. — Diane Setterfield

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

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

Endings that are muted, but which echo longer in the memory than louder, more explosive denouements. — Diane Setterfield

She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it. — Diane Setterfield

For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. — Diane Setterfield