Frases de Diane Setterfield

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“What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?”

Diane Setterfield livro The Thirteenth Tale

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

Diane Setterfield livro The Thirteenth Tale

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

Diane Setterfield livro The Thirteenth Tale

“For it must be very lonely being dead.”

Diane Setterfield livro The Thirteenth Tale

“Life is compost.”

Diane Setterfield livro The Thirteenth Tale

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

Diane Setterfield livro The Thirteenth Tale

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

Diane Setterfield

“There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.”

Diane Setterfield livro The Thirteenth Tale

“Tragedy alters everything.”

Diane Setterfield livro The Thirteenth Tale

“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.”

Diane Setterfield livro The Thirteenth Tale

“Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.”

Diane Setterfield livro The Thirteenth Tale