Diane Setterfield - Book Quotes

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Opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

Diane Setterfield
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

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What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

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The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.

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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

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Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

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Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

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When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

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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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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.

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Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.

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There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

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She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

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I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

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