"You are suffering from an ailment that affects……" — Diane Setterfield
"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 the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303"
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78 Quotes by Diane Setterfield
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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books…
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She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
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A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the…
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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask…
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The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually…
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Of course I loved books more than people.
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