Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
("The Thirteenth Tale")
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I reached for the prescription. In a vigorous scrawl, he inked: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, till end of course.Diane Setterfield
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.
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.
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But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.
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I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.
Diane Setterfield
But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.
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