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Diane Setterfield Quotes about Children

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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

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 Setterfield
Children, Winter, Events
Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

Diane Setterfield
Children, Book, Nostalgic
Diane Setterfield (2006). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.

Diane Setterfield
Children, House, Secret
Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

I 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
Children, Believe, Book

All 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 Setterfield
Children, Heart, Soul
Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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