Diane Setterfield Quotes About Birth

• 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

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  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

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  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter

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  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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