“Ever since Eliza had discovered the book of fairy tales . . . had disappeared inside its faded pages, she'd understood the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Laurel wondered whether perhaps a person reached an age when so much was kept from them, so many details of life discussed and decided… — Kate Morton Copy Share
“It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known.” — Kate Morton Copy Share
“It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark, every unexplained… — Kate Morton Copy Share
“tiempo tiene su peculiar manera de moldear a la gente de forma que ellos mismos ya no se reconocen,” — Kate Morton Copy Share
“She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape the rigid… — Kate Morton Copy Share
It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a… — Kate Morton Copy Share
“... and I thought -not for the first time- what a true and simple pleasure it was, to be inside and sated when the… — Kate Morton Copy Share
“Nell was like a witch. Her long silvery hair rolled into a bun on the back of her head, the narrow wooden house on… — Kate Morton Copy Share
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the… — Kate Morton Copy Share
“I don’t have many friends, not the living, breathing sort at any rate. And I don’t mean that in a sad and lonely way;… — Kate Morton Copy Share
