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#1

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the 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.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books

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#2

“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books, character, characters, ideas, impact, reading

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#3

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books, power-of-words

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#4

“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, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: birth, children, myth, story, truth

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#5

“Of course I loved books more than people.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books

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#6

“There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books, re-reading, reading

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#7

“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? ”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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#8

“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books, fiction, on-fiction, stories, writing

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#9

“My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: stories, storytelling

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#10

“Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: ambition, inoffensiveness, politeness

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#11

“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.”
― Diane Setterfield

tags: books, fiction, reading

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#12

“But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: silence, storytelling

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#13

“Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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#14

“As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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#15

“One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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#16

“Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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#17

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”
― Diane Setterfield

tags: writing

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#18

“I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: truth

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#19

“Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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#20

“Reading can be dangerous.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: margaret-lea, the-thirteenth-tale

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#21

“The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and what you choose to do.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: abmition, awakening, be-happy, believe, change, soul, spirituality, values, wander, writer

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#22

“Your Heavenly Father’s love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: bible, book-of-god, church, find-god, hope, light, prayer, self-awareness, self-love

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#23

“Soul power ripples outward in all directions, affecting everything— physical health, emotional well-being, relationships, families, work, and destiny.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: biblical, christ, christian, christian-spiritual-growth, christianity, deliverance-from-evil, faith-in-god, spiritual, spiritual-freedom, spiritual-welfare

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#24

“Feed the soul beauty, and it will heal itself.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: christian-spiritual-growth, conquer, content, fearless, liberating, power, pride, resiliency, spiritual, success

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#25

“Healing comes to the soul through the power of connection. Our connection with God is our connection to healing—spirit, soul, and body”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: christian-spiritual-growth, conquer, content, fearless, liberating, power, pride, resiliency, spiritual, success

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#26

“We give our mistakes too much power. Instead, see a mistake for what it is. It is not the real you… You are more valuable than the opinion others have of you.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: abmition, awakening, glory, joy, soul, spirituality, truth, values, wander, writer

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#27

“Soul health turns into whole health. Soul sickness turns into whole sickness.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: courage, dig-deep, don-t-judge, explore, faith, find-yourself, goal-setting, judgement, laugh, learn

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#28

“No matter how many times you failed or have fallen, no matter how many times you’ve denied God, He will not deny you.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: courage, dig-deep, don-t-judge, explore, faith, find-yourself, goal-setting, judgement, laugh, learn

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#29

“What you focus on and the way you think will determine the way you live.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: bible, book-of-god, church, glory, hope, joy, light, prayer, self-love, truth

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#30

“God’s love sweeps away everything before it. It sweeps away your past, your pain, your fears, your regrets.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: abmition, awakening, glory, joy, soul, spirituality, truth, values, wander, writer

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