Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.
("The Thirteenth Tale")
More Quotes from Diane Setterfield:
Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.Diane Setterfield
One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.
Diane Setterfield
I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.
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 that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter
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Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
Diane Setterfield
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
Diane Setterfield
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