Diane Setterfield

"What better place to kill time than a library?"

"Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline."

"The imagination is a healthy thing, and a great many scientific discoveries could not have been made without it, but it need to be harnessed to some serious object if it is to come to anything."

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