“... ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection, but Angelfield was an odd fellow, and there it was.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I have closed my study door on the world and shut myself away with people of my imagination. For nearly sixty years… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“This might seem excessive; ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection,” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“He turned from the daughters of minor aristocrats to those of farriers, farmers and foresters. Personally he couldn't tell the difference, yet… — 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
“The almanac cut her and her babies adrift; she and they fell into the vast ocean of ordinary people, whose births and… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom… — 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
