The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

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

the message is that there is no end to human suffering, only endurance.

Tragedy alters everything.

“Politeness. Now, there’s a poor man’s virtue if ever there was one. What’s so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it’s easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what’s left when you’ve failed at everything else. People with ambition don’t give a damn what other people think about them.

She might have looked like a potato, but there was nothing that girl couldn’t do,

Do i get this tattooed

but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.

Mainsplaining but professionally

Her desire for flames was all the kindling she needed.