The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.
Diane SetterfieldI 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
Diane SetterfieldThough my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.
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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 persuade ourselves that this was life and that we were really living it?
Diane SetterfieldFamilies are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.
Diane SetterfieldBut there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.
Diane SetterfieldTodos los niños mitifican su nacimiento. Es un rasgo universal. ¿Quieres conocer a alguien? ¿Su corazón, su mente, su alma? Pídele que te hable de cuando nació. Lo que te cuente no será la verdad: será una historia. Y nada es tan revelador como una historia.
Vida Winter, Cuentos de cambio y desesperación.
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But pecuniary interest is clearly not in your nature. How quaint. I have written about people who don't care for money, but I never expected to meet one. Therefor I conclude that the difficulty concerns integrity. People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appauling obsession with personal integrity." - Vida Winter
Diane SetterfieldTags: money integrity business
Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words.
Diane SetterfieldCertainly for myself I believe I would always wish to know the truth, but then I also wish to never have to face a truth I cannot bear. Being able to look truth in the face might be brave, or it might just mean you have been lucky in the truth you were dealt.
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