Diane Setterfield Quotes - Page 2

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• There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to very few privileged others. To pronounce such a name either ones own or someone else's is to invite jeopardy. This it seemed was such a name.

  Diane Setterfield

  Names, Culture, Should

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Integrity, People, Healthy

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

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  Thinking, Coarse

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

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  Past, Long, Shadow

  Diane Setterfield (2014). “Bellman & Black: A Novel”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

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  Single Mom, Writing, Ideas

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Book, Pages, Conan

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• But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Laughing

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Simple, Reason, Novel

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Reading can be dangerous.

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  Reading, Dangerous

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.

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  Book, Ice, Law

  Diane Setterfield (2011). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• For it must be very lonely being dead.

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  Lonely

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• What better place to kill time than a library?

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  Library, Better Place

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Book, Choices, Way

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Book, Reading, Light

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Mean, Realizing, Ill

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Tragedy alters everything.

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  Tragedy

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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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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  People, Dull, Facts

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Stories, Might, Like Family

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Morning, Book, Reading

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.

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  Children, Believe, Book

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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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  Names, Needs, Call Me

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Dark, Wind, Midnight

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  People, Fiction, Bears

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Book, Smell, Dry

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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