Quote by Diane Setterfield Download Open image ““They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls.”” — Diane Setterfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“She felt like an amputee, reaching out reflexively with an arm she no longer had.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Once he had told her something that she could not imagine: that amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches, in the leg that is no longer… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I would think that the last person you'd want to sass ould be the one who might react by tearing you limb from limb.” — Lia Habel Copy Share Image
“They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Humans had no souls, not really, just little things, comparatively speaking. But his kind—and the others … they were full up. Bursting out of… — Robert J. Crane Copy Share Image
“...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times.” — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the body was not a cage that held the soul, but a hand that gripped it like a cane, appearing to guide it,… — Christopher R. Beha Copy Share Image
“Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates 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 was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
“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 trouble of marking my name onto this envelope. Who was it who had had his mind’s eye on me while I hadn’t suspected a thing?” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
“But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence, this very word, I am aware of a ghost reader who leans over my shoulder watching my pen, who twists my words and perverts my meaning, and makes me uncomfortable in the privacy of my own thoughts. It… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
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