To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.
("The Thirteenth Tale")
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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.
Diane Setterfield
The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.
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
He has explained why it is that ambiguity touches his heart more nearly than the death and marriage style of finish that i prefer.
Diane Setterfield
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.
Diane Setterfield
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