Thirteenth Tale Quotes

#1. 'The Thirteenth Tale' is reminiscent of 'Wuthering Heights' because you're never sure if it's a ghost or if people have gone a bit mad; that feeling that's been channelled all the way from Bronte is a really exciting one.

Tom Goodman-Hill

#2. Suggested Reading Louis Bayard, The Black Tower; Sarah Blake, Grange House; F. G. Cottam, The House of Lost Souls; Michael Cox, The Glass of Time; Mark Frost, The List of Seven; John Harwood, The Ghost Writer; Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale.

Susan Hill

#3. Reading can be dangerous.

Diane Setterfield

#4. It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

Charles Darwin

#5. I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

Jeff Mangum

#6. I sometimes feel," the president wrote, "that the world problems are getting worse instead of better. In our own country, however, in spite of sniping, 'chiseling' and growling by the extreme right and by the extreme left, we are actually putting people back to work and raising values.

Erik Larson

#7. Insanity is catching.

Terry Pratchett

#8. After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.

Henry Peach Robinson

#9. They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

Adrienne Rich

#10. I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.

Caitriona Balfe

#11. You cannot know" he said simply. "Very little is certain in this life, my lady.

Robin Maxwell

#12. The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to one end.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#14. What's the difference between a J.A.P and spaghetti? Spaghetti moves when you eat it.

Bret Easton Ellis

#15. Miguel: Merle? What kind of hick name is that? I wouldn't name my dog Merle.

The Walking Dead

#16. If you think that no miracles ever happened to you, remember that every morning when you wake up, you experience a resurrection

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#17. She was pretty, yeah, but pretty like hundreds of other girls. You," he dabbed the bread in the air as if sketching her, "you're ... memorable. Who you are just shines through your face.

Julia Spencer-Fleming