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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.” — 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 Copy Share Image
“Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering… — 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
“To discover early that behind the black marks on white pages lurk worlds of incomparable terror, joy and excitement is one of… — 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… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there werre worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had… — Kate Morton 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 Copy Share Image
Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her… — 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,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Apart from such visits, for the first time in her life Eliza was truly alone. In the beginning, unfamiliar sounds, nocturnal sounds,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“I don’t have many friends, not the living, breathing sort at any rate. And I don’t mean that in a sad and… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“It was a glorious evening, the sun seeming to hesitate in the process of setting, as if it couldn't bear to end… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Full of life and light; blissfully unaware of all the future had in store.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“There were moments in which a person reached a crossroads, when something happened, out of the blue, to change the course of… — Kate Morton 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
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 must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit… — Kate Morton 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 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 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
