It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did. — 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 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 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
I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . . — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior… — Kate Morton 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 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
“A brisk wind wove through the bushes, twirling the leaves so that their pale undersides fluttered towards the sun. Like children thrust… — Kate Morton 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 Copy Share Image
“This child lent a solidity to him and Lil. They were a family now, an unbreakable unit of three.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“When they were children at Loeanneth they'd spent the summer in and out of the water, their skin turning brown beneath the… — 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 Image
“It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“tiempo tiene su peculiar manera de moldear a la gente de forma que ellos mismos ya no se reconocen,” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“... 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 Image
“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 Image
