She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. — Kate Morton Actors Copy Share Image
“...as I already said, they didn't look like much--but beauty's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?” — Kate Morton Beauty Copy Share Image
“But it was not so complicated really. Such things rarely are. It was a simple case of stars aligning; those that didn't… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“It was safe to say that neither had ever known the other sort of love, the sort with fireworks and racing hearts… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“There was a lid for each pot, she'd told me often and soberly, and she thanked God she'd found her lid in… — Kate Morton Grandfather Copy Share Image
“"A noise, and the past was chased away, dispersed into the shadows like smoke by the brighter, louder present.” — Kate Morton Time Copy Share Image
She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a… — Kate Morton Book Copy Share Image
“He would love her with a passion that both frightened and revived him, a desperation that made a mockery of his neat… — Kate Morton Desperation Copy Share Image
She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening… — Kate Morton Breeze Copy Share Image
It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the… — Kate Morton Earth 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 Cassandra Copy Share Image
“All are shaped by things beyond their control, traits inherited, traits learned. For Linus, the piece of his leg bone that had… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you… — Kate Morton Being truthful Copy Share Image
“As Linus grew into his teens, became even more awkward, with long, gangly arms and odd ginger hairs sprouting from his spotty… — Kate Morton Children Copy Share Image
“Eliza had a skill for rat catching, though she didn't like to do it. The rats were just trying to stay alive… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end… — Kate Morton Writer Copy Share Image
“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to… — Kate Morton Art Copy Share Image
“She'd filled twelve notebooks and still she hadn't stopped. Indeed, the more she wrote, the louder the stories seemed to grow, swirling… — Kate Morton Writing Copy Share Image
“Nijinsky in 'Le Spectre de la rose' was like nothing I'd seen before. He danced a fifteen-minute solo and it passed like… — Kate Morton Ballet Copy Share Image
“The sun had lit up the top row of leadlight windows, and the family home, polished to within an inch of its… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“With a glance back towards the house, he pulled the secret sketches from within. He'd been working at them on and off… — Kate Morton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“Some seasons later, the Princess of the kingdom was riding with her handmaiden on the edge of the dark woods. Though once… — Kate Morton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“Don't you find it remarkable that the whole world can be involved in this madness we call war, and all the while… — Kate Morton Beauty Copy Share Image
“She forced herself to stroll casually and appraise her plants. The wisteria was shedding its final leaves, the jasmine had long lost… — Kate Morton Bond Copy Share Image
“Ben ducked beneath the arbor and paused by the fishpond when a memory crept upon him like a shadow. This was the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“She knew why she had Gerry on her mind, why she was spotting his likeness in the faces of strange little boys.… — Kate Morton Astronomer Copy Share Image
That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets. — Kate Morton Character Copy Share Image
... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.” — Kate Morton Child Copy Share Image
“There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.” — Kate Morton Book Copy Share Image
“in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
