Truth Quote by Diane Setterfield — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most.”

“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.”

“These ideas can be made more concrete with a parable, which I borrow from John Fowles’s wonderful novel, The Magus.”

“No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.”

“[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”

“We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.”

“But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.”

“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.”