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
“Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Familes… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Everybody has a story. It’s like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all… — 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, fading in places to a ghostly nothingness. Why recall the picture now, you must be wondering. The reason I remember it so well is that it seems to be an image of the way I have… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
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
