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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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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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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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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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For it must be very lonely being dead.
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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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Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
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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.
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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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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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In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.
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Tragedy alters everything.
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As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
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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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My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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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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Of course I loved books more than people.
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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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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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