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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
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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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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 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.
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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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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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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
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Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
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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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My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
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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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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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opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
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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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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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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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Reading can be dangerous.
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As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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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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For it must be very lonely being dead.
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