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

“I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale