All Diane Setterfield Quotes
- For me to see is to read. It has always been that way. Been
- Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a… Age
- opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. Book
- Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. Book
- Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.… Age
- And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at… Any
- Reading can be dangerous. Dangerous
- For it must be very lonely being dead. Dead
- One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people. Forget
- As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living. Alive
- Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember. From
- Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent. Absent
- Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Confront
- 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… All
- He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what… All
- What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? Better
- 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… Another Mind
- The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread… Another World
- 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… Beautiful
- My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had… Apart
- Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. Amenable
- You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level… Adequate
- The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked.… Dazzled
- Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform. Behind
- What better place to kill time than a library? Better