A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
Diane SetterfieldAll children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
Diane SetterfieldTags: truth children story myth birth
Life is compost.
Diane SetterfieldTags: life
Of course I loved books more than people.
Diane SetterfieldTags: books
One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
Diane SetterfieldTags: politeness
He turned from the daughters of minor aristocrats to those of farriers, farmers and foresters. Personally he couldn't tell the difference, yet the world seemed to mind less.
Diane SetterfieldTags: love
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.
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I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter
Diane SetterfieldBut silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
Diane SetterfieldTags: silence storytelling
What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?
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