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title: "2 Love Longing Quotes By Kate Morton"
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> [“It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/it-is-queer-but-my-love-and-longing-for-the-world-are-always-deepened/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/172/kate-morton-805_dark-days_it-is-queer-but-my-love-and-longing-for_1544231.png)

> [“Don't you find it remarkable that the whole world can be involved in this madness we call war, and all the while the flowers and the bees and the seasons keep on doing what they must, wise but never weary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/don-t-you-find-it-remarkable-that-the-whole-world-can-be-involved-in/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a42/kate-morton-805_beauty_don-t-you-find-it-remarkable-that-the-wh_3177299.jpg)

## More by Kate Morton

> [“Laurel wondered whether perhaps a person reached an age when so much was kept from them, so many details of life discussed and decided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/laurel-wondered-whether-perhaps-a-person-reached-an-age-when-so-much/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [“It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/it-hardly-needs-to-be-said-sooner-or-later-secrets-have-a-way-of/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [“Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/give-someone-more-time-and-they-ll-appear-to-have-done-more-with-it/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [“It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark, every unexplained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/it-suddenly-seemed-to-laurel-that-all-the-absences-in-her-own-life/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/rejection-is-a-cancer-edie-it-eats-away-at-a-person/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [“home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/home-is-a-magnet-that-lures-back-even-its-most-abstracted-children/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [“tiempo tiene su peculiar manera de moldear a la gente de forma que ellos mismos ya no se reconocen,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/tiempo-tiene-su-peculiar-manera-de-moldear-a-la-gente-de-forma-que/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [“I want to know how it feels to be altered by life”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/i-want-to-know-how-it-feels-to-be-altered-by-life/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/she-d-opened-the-front-cover-and-fallen-inside-the-wonderful/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 takes a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/it-s-special-grandparents-and-grandchldren-so-much-simpler-is-it/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [“... and I thought -not for the first time- what a true and simple pleasure it was, to be inside and sated when the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/and-i-thought-not-for-the-first-time-what-a-true-and-simple-pleasure/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [“Nell was like a witch. Her long silvery hair rolled into a bun on the back of her head, the narrow wooden house on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/nell-was-like-a-witch-her-long-silvery-hair-rolled-into-a-bun-on-the/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/thinking-of-nothing-trying-to-think-of-nothing-thinking-of-everything/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/there-s-a-market-for-mysteries-for-adults-that-feeling-of-opening-a/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

> [“I don’t have many friends, not the living, breathing sort at any rate. And I don’t mean that in a sad and lonely way;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/i-don-t-have-many-friends-not-the-living-breathing-sort-at-any-rate/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

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