"Our lives are so important to us that……" — Diane Setterfield

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think… - Diane Setterfield

"Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter"

— Diane Setterfield

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