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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.

Diane Setterfield

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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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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.
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But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.
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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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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 shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.
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My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
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Tragedy alters everything.
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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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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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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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She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
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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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My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.
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Reading can be dangerous.
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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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There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime you have to draw the line somewhere.
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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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opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
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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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