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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.
Diane Setterfield
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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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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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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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Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
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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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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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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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As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
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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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I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.
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Of course I loved books more than people.
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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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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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My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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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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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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