After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there anything more sorrowful than a brain whose proper function has been disrupted?
("The Thirteenth Tale")
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Of course I loved books more than people.Diane Setterfield
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.
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.
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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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There are too many books in the world to read in a single life time. You have to draw the line somewhere.
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For it must be very lonely being dead.
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