“My thoughts swim. Back and forth, in and out, across the tides of history” — Kate Morton History Copy Share Image
“This child lent a solidity to him and Lil. They were a family now, an unbreakable unit of three.” — Kate Morton Children Copy Share Image
Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Frailty begot frailty. Nothing caused lightheadedness so surely as day after day of stifling confinement.” — Kate Morton Frailty Copy Share Image
“Lack of potatoes left a person’s stomach growling, but absence of beauty hardened the soul.” — Kate Morton Beauty Copy Share Image
You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing. — Kate Morton Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can tell just by looking at a door that there’s something interesting behind it.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“It is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of… — Kate Morton Revelation Copy Share Image
“And Juniper had understood, somehow, that in Tom she'd found the person who could balance her, and that more than anything, to… — Kate Morton Fall in love Copy Share Image
“It's the past. Thoughts and dreams, hopes and hurts, all brewed together, fermenting slowly in the fusty air, unable ever to dissipate… — Kate Morton Dreams Copy Share Image
I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could… — Kate Morton Good words Copy Share Image
Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“My cheeks burned: with disillusionment, with the feverish afterglow of confrontation, but most hotly with embarrassment. I had perceived a closeness where… — Kate Morton Embarrassment 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 Children Copy Share Image
“Was that what Nell had done, too? Forsaken the life and the family she'd been given, to focus instead on the one… — Kate Morton Family Copy Share Image
“Wild rambling roses had started to appear on the sides of the path; creatures of habit making their yearly bids between the… — Kate Morton Flowers Copy Share Image
“She deserved a man who could offer her the best of everything, not a lifetime of butcher's leftovers got on the cheap… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“People marveled at her ability to build characters from the inside out, to submerge herself and disappear beneath the skin of another… — Kate Morton Keeping secrets Copy Share Image
“While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are… — Kate Morton Children 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
“The house, she'd explained to them many times, had spoken to her; she'd listened, and it turned out they'd understood one another… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“She wondered sometimes how he stood the constant criticism. "Love," Mr. Llewellyn had said when she ventured as much to him. "We… — Kate Morton Constant criticism Copy Share Image
“How can a person expect to escape their destiny, Merry? That is the question." A silence, then a small, practical voice. "There's… — Kate Morton Fitness Copy Share Image
“For centuries the Mountrachets had been keen horticulturists. Forebear after forebear had traveled far and wide, spanning the globe in search of… — Kate Morton Garden Copy Share Image
There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Benjamin Munro was his name. She mouthed the syllables silently, Benjamin James Munro, twenty-six years old, late of London. He had no… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Without sight to get in the way of things, the whole world was suddenly alive with sound: the lapping of water as… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“There was something about the garden that reminded her of Nell's backyard in Brisbane. Not the plants so much as the mood.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Alice dug into her pocket and pulled out her notebook, hurrying to make a note of the sensation and the day and… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“And at last, the wicked Queen's spell was broken, and the young woman, whom circumstance and cruelty had trapped in the body… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.” — Kate Morton Book Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar. — Kate Morton Age Copy Share Image
“...the wedding photographs were stained with black umbrellas.” — Kate Morton Marriage Copy Share Image
“History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force indeed,…” — Kate Morton History Copy Share Image
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton Book Copy Share Image
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. — Kate Morton Storyteller Copy Share Image
