Diane Setterfield People Quotations

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

Of course I loved books more than people.