Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone's Eyes” — Kate Morton Happiness Copy Share Image
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else. — Kate Morton Abyss Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra… — Kate Morton Cassandra Copy Share Image
“By quirk of geography, people did not come unexpectedly to Loeanneth. The estate sat deep in a dell, surrounded by thick, briar-tangled… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“...how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about… — Kate Morton Brave Copy Share Image
“My heart flutters a little. Or something inside my heart flutters; an artery worn so thin that a flap has come loose,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Life'd be a lot easier if it were like a fairy tale," said Cassandra, "if people belonged to stock character types." "Oh,… — Kate Morton Character Copy Share Image
“Tea and toast were the rule after long-haul flying. It was one of the great mysteries of the universe, that a person… — Kate Morton Long haul Copy Share Image
“I know what it meant. I worked it out myself. I've been reading about it. It was a metaphorical death. Sometimes the… — Kate Morton Death Copy Share Image
“One of the things I have come to know most surely in my work is that the belief system acquired in childhood… — Kate Morton Belief Copy Share Image
“The woman in whose body I had grown, in whose house I’d been raised was, in some vital ways, a stranger to… — Kate Morton Stranger Copy Share Image
The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing,… — Kate Morton Certainty Copy Share Image
“Hannah didn't see Robbie again for weeks after that. She thought he'd forgotten his promise to lend her his book of poetry.… — Kate Morton Books Copy Share Image
In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are… — Kate Morton Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“Although it was almost midnight, London wasn't dark. Cities like London never were, she suspected, not anymore. The modern world had killed… — Kate Morton Midnight Copy Share Image
“Where are you? London. A phone booth on Fleet Street. The city still has working phone booths? It would appear so. Unless… — Kate Morton Fleet street Copy Share Image
“there was a pessimism in his soul, a darkness in his outlook, that always left her somehow more aware of hard edges… — Kate Morton Darkness Copy Share Image
“A place is more than the sum of its physical parts; it’s a repository for memories, a record and retainer of all… — Kate Morton Boundaries Copy Share Image
“Tragedy has been described as 'the conflict between desire and possibility.' Following this definition, is The Forgotten Garden a tragedy? If so,… — Kate Morton Tragedies Copy Share Image
The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“To discover early that behind the black marks on white pages lurk worlds of incomparable terror, joy and excitement is one of… — Kate Morton Excitement Copy Share Image
“I feel like a von Trapp," Ruby said between puffs, "But fatter, older and with absolutely no energy for singing.” — Kate Morton Humor Copy Share Image
You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it."… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“An expression of infinite wisdom, as if, in those first days of life, the small person retained the knowledge of a lifetime… — Kate Morton Knowledge Copy Share Image
His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to… — Kate Morton Death Copy Share Image
“The ease I had come to expect with him had evaporated, replaced by awkwardness, a confusing tendency towards wrong turns and misunderstandings” — Kate Morton Awkwardness Copy Share Image
While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides,' she said. 'It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.” — Kate Morton Flower Copy Share Image
A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you… — Kate Morton Communication Copy Share Image
“The city still has working phone booths?’ ‘It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I’m in serious… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“As an only child, Cassandra found the well-worn paths of sibling interaction fascinating and horrifying in equal parts.” — Kate Morton Children Copy Share Image
Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“You mustn't wait for someone to rescue you, . . . . A girl expecting rescue never learns to rescue herself. Even… — Kate Morton Courage Copy Share Image
