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I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

Diane Setterfield

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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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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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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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For it must be very lonely being dead.
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Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
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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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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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Of course I loved books more than people.
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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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Reading can be dangerous.
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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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Tragedy alters everything.
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There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime you have to draw the line somewhere.
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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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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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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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opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
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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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