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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.
Diane Setterfield
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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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For it must be very lonely being dead.
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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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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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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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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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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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My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
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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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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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Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
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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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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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What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
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Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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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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Reading can be dangerous.
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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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