“They stood in silence, looking at floorboards and corners of cornices and other such insignificances, their curiosity and compassion at the ready.… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I see,” she said softly, nodding her head as though she really did. “Well, it’s your business, of course.” She turned her… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then… — 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
