Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
Diane SetterfieldEmmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.
Diane SetterfieldOne gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.
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. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.
Diane Setterfield