Diane Setterfield quotes - page 2

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. (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. View quote
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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. View quote
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She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it. View quote
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Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember. View quote
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What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? View quote
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Reading can be dangerous. View quote
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opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. View quote
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Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. View quote
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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. View quote
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Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. (Diane Setterfield)
One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. View quote
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Life is compost. View quote
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I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time. View quote
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One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people. View quote
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I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten. View quote
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I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember. View quote
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We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives. View quote
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You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process. View quote
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We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delinaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. I know, he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did. View quote
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Writing is more about discovery than invention. (Diane Setterfield)
For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading. View quote
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