Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter
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…
- 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…
I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. - Diane Setterfield
I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.
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.
Of course I loved books more than people. - Diane Setterfield
Of course I loved books more than people.
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.
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
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