When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
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When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
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