A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“The beginning, perhaps. The girl without the mother. But after that . . . I wish someone could tell me what it means. I wish… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I shall start at the beginning. Though of course, the beginning is never where you think it is.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“They are more real than the books on the shelves, books that are sketched with the barest hint of a line here and there,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person—some stranger—had gone to the… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence, this very… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“He felt something move in his chest, as though an organ had been removed and something unfamiliar left in its place. A sentiment he… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
