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Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
Diane Setterfield
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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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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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Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
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Reading can be dangerous.
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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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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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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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Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.
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What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
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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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In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.
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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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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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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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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 shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.
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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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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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Of course I loved books more than people.
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