When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.
("The Thirteenth Tale")
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Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.Diane Setterfield
Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.
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Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.
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Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
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One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.
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I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter
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