Frases de Diane Setterfield

“Un nacimiento no es, en realidad, una introducción. Nuestra vida,
cuando empieza, no es realmente nuestra, sino la continuación de la historia de
otro.”

“Todos tenemos nuestros dolores, y aunque la forma, el peso y las dimensiones del dolor son diferentes para cada persona, el color del dolor es común a todos nosotros.”

“Sin duda, una buena historia deslumbra mucho más que un pedazo de verdad.”

“Me pasé la mañana luchando con la sensación de volutas descarriadas de un mundo intentando filtrarse por las grietas de otro. ¿Conocéis la sensación de empezar un libro nuevo antes de que el recuerdo del último haya tenido tiempo de cerrarse detrás de vosotros? Deja uno el libro anterior con ideas y temas —personajes incluso— atrapados en las fibras de la ropa y cuando abre el libro nuevo siguen ahí.”

“Todos los niños mitifican su nacimiento. Es un rasgo universal. ¿Quieres conocer a alguien? ¿Su corazón, su mente, su alma? Pídele que te hable de cuando nació. Lo que te cuente no será la verdad: será una historia. Y nada es tan revelador como una historia. - Vida Winter”

“Tú estás viva; pero estar viva no es lo mismo que vivir.”

“La gente desaparece cuando muere. La voz, la risa, el calor de su aliento, la
carne y finalmente los huesos. Todo recuerdo vivo de ella termina. Es algo
terrible y natural al mismo tiempo. Sin embargo, hay individuos que se salvan
de esa aniquilación, pues siguen existiendo en los libros que escribieron. Podemos volver a descubrirlos. Su humor, el tono de su voz, su estado de ánimo. A través de la palabra escrita pueden enojarte o alegrarte. Pueden consolarte, pueden desconcertarte, pueden cambiarte. Y todo eso pese a estar muertos. Como moscas en ámbar, como cadáveres congelados en el hielo, eso que según las leyes de la naturaleza debería desaparecer se conserva por el milagro de la tinta sobre el papel. Es una suerte de magia.”

“«Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Los casos de Sherlock Holmes. Tomar diez páginas, dos veces al día, hasta finalizar
el tratamiento».”

“Cuando el miedo y el frío hacen de ti una estatua en tu propia cama, no ansíes que la Verdad pura y dura acuda en tu auxilio. Lo que necesitas es el mullido consuelo de un relato. La protección balsámica, adormecedora, de una mentira.”

“Nos acostumbramos tanto a nuestros propios horrores que olvidamos el efecto que pueden tener en otras personas.”

“Terminado el entierro, por fin podría llorar.
Pero no pude. Mi lágrimas, contenidas durante demasiado tiempo, se habían secado.
Tendrían que quedarse dentro para siempre.”

“There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.”

“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”

“What better place to kill time than a library?”

“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.”

“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.”

“For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.”

“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.”

“As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.”

“I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.”

“The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.”

“Reading can be dangerous.”

“One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.”

“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.”

“Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.”

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”

“One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.”

“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.”

“I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.”

“She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.”

“When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.”

“To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.”

“opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.”

“In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.”

“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy”

“Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.”