201 Quotes by Diane Setterfield

"A curtain was drawn back in every man's inner theater and their storytelling minds got to work."

"Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?"

"You may not want to be my son, but I cannot help but be your father."

"They think I am concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding."

"A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic."

"L'appetit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes by eating. Your appetite will come back, but it must be met halfway. You must want it to come."

"There must be more to stories than you think."

"You leave the previous book with idea's and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothing - and when you open a new book, they are still with you."

"We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delinaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. I know, he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did."

"She's not coming back.""No." He knew it was true. He had the feeling that the world might easily stop turning without the girl in it. Every hour was arduous, and when it was over, you had to start again with a new one, no better. He wondered how long he would be able to keep it going."