More quotes by Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

"Of course I loved books more than people."
"What better place to kill time than a library?"
"I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions."
"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."
"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."