More quotes by Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

"Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head."
"I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions."
"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."
"There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere."
"A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth."