Draperies Quote by Diane Setterfield

“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

“Margaret Lea.” “The biographer.”

— Diane Setterfield

“He was the first of my ghosts.”

— Diane Setterfield

“It was like living entirely inside a book.”

— Diane Setterfield

“Then something rang a bell in his mind. What”

— Diane Setterfield

What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

— Diane Setterfield

“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

“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

“the Missus stood like a ghost.”

— Diane Setterfield

“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

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

— Diane Setterfield

“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