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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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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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Inhaled
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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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In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.
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For it must be very lonely being dead.
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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 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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She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
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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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As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
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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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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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Tragedy alters everything.
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Of course I loved books more than people.
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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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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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Reading can be dangerous.
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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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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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Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.
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