“ The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too… Diane Setterfield
“ There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere. Diane Setterfield
“ An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues; it is nothing that a good night's sleep cannot cure. Diane Setterfield
“ My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. Diane Setterfield
“ No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down. Diane Setterfield
“ She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee in the days before anesthesia, half crazed… Diane Setterfield
“ It gave me a queer feeling. Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person some had gone to the trouble of marking my name on thi… Diane Setterfield
“ My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making my own more or less appropriate selections. I read gory tales of historic heroism that nine… Diane Setterfield
“ I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leant over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as… Diane Setterfield
“ The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most. Diane Setterfield
“ There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Diane Setterfield
“ It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls and ceilings. The weight of what has been said can lie heavily on what might ye… Diane Setterfield
