Quotes
Authors
Diane Setterfield
"I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter" --
Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster
Diane Setterfield
#Children Quotes
#Winter Quotes
#Events Quotes
“The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.”
“Any sport that lasts six minutes, that's it, you can just imagine how intense it is, only six minutes long.If you try something, if you try a move, if you take a single leg takedown and it doesn't work, you don't give up. You don't give up; you will succeed. I think it's very parallel with the stuff that you have to do in the real world.”
“I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.”
“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.”
“Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.”
“Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.”
“Life is a flow of love.”
“No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it.”