I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.
("The Thirteenth Tale")
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For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.Diane Setterfield
I was in a kind of no-man's-land, a place between places. The mind plays all sorts of trucks, gets up to all kinds of things while we ourselves are slumbering in a white zone that looks for all the world like inattention to the onlooker.
Diane Setterfield
Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
Diane Setterfield
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.
Diane Setterfield
Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
Diane Setterfield
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