201 Quotes by Diane Setterfield

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.