Diane Setterfield Quotes

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

Ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection, but Angelfield was an odd fellow, and there it was.

After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there anything more sorrowful than a brain whose proper function has been disrupte...

Along the borders of this world lie others. There are places you can cross. This is one such place.

Aurelius Alphonse Love.

But only when it was too late did they realize the price they must pay for escaping their destiny. Every Happy Ever After was tainted. Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation...

But there was more. Did she know I had noticed? I had made no outward sign. But I had noticed. Today Miss Winter had said I.

Does the occurrence of one impossible thing increase the likelihood of a second.

Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking. Though they're not old enough to be valuable for their age alone, nor important...

Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.

For it looked as if the walls were simply dissolving in the rain; those stones still standing, pale and insubstantial as rice paper, seemed ready to melt away under my very eyes if I just stood there...

For it must be very lonely being dead.

For nearly sixty years 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 leaned over shoulders to follow the...

For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist.

He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that there is no end to human suffering, only endurance. He has spoken of endi...

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

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 leaned over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as...

I looked out into the dead garden. Against the fading light, my shadow hovered in the glass, looking into the dead room. What did she make of us? I wondered. What did she think of our attempts to pers...

I made a resolution to telephone my mother the next day, but it was a safe resolution; no one can hold you to a decision made in middle of the night.And then my spine sent me an alarm. A presence. Her...

I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book.