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.

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

Diane Setterfield

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

Diane Setterfield

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

Diane Setterfield