Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
("The Thirteenth Tale")
More Quotes from 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
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
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Of course I loved books more than people.
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There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.
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In the background is the hiss of the gas heater; we hear the sound without hearing it for, side by side, together and miles apart, we are deep in our books.
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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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