"There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work."

“One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.”

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“Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.”

“I have superpowers when I have a glass of wine.”

“Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.”

“I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.”

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“Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in 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.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2011). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.24, Hachette UK

“In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.”

“Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2013). “A Whisper of Roses”, p.172, Amber House Books