Heart Quotes by Kate Morton

“...if she didn't learn to stop her mind racing on ahead of her she'd end up running into a mountain made of…

— Kate Morton

“He would love her with a passion that both frightened and revived him, a desperation that made a mockery of his neat…

— Kate Morton

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

— Kate Morton

Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won.…

— Kate Morton

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

“Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps.”

— Kate Morton

“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

“it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.”

— Kate Morton

“when she first came to Blackhurst, one twist and the same pieces were rearranged to create a vastly different picture. Where a…

— Kate Morton

She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the…

— Kate Morton

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

Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to…

— Kate Morton

“Over the course of weeks, taking great care never to revel her inward state of flux, Percy had evaluated her situation, observing…

— Kate Morton

“She was the sort of person who needed to be kept happy, he realized. Not as a matter of selfish expectation, but…

— Kate Morton

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

The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing,…

— Kate Morton

The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience:…

— Kate Morton

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

“The event itself played over in her mind, and the role she'd taken in the police investigation, the things she'd told them…

— Kate Morton

“To tell the truth, she didn't want to; she liked the constancy of preoccupation.”

— Kate Morton

“It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark,…

— Kate Morton