When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.
I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. - Diane Setterfield
I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.
- Diane Setterfield
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic. - Diane Setterfield
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white… - Diane Setterfield
The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white…
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. - Diane Setterfield
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.
I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something tha… - Diane Setterfield
I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something tha…
As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living. - Diane Setterfield
As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
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 - Diane Setterfield
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
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. - Diane Setterfield
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.
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. - Diane Setterfield
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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