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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

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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
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Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.
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Of course I loved books more than people.
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In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.
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The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won’t notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him. – Vida Winters Page 268
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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.
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Reading can be dangerous.
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I have always been a reader I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy
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Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
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I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.
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What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?
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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.
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Tragedy alters everything.
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One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
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For it must be very lonely being dead.
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There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to very few privileged others. To pronounce such a name either ones own or someone else's is to invite jeopardy. This it seemed was such a name.
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What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
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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.
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Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
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