Diane Setterfield Short Quotes

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But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.

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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

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I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.

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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

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

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

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Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

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Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

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

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

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She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

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My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

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

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Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.

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I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

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What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?

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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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Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

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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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People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

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One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

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A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

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Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

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