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title: "4 Rescue Quotes By Kate Morton"
description: "4 Rescue quotes by Kate Morton. Plus more from Kate Morton and more Rescue sayings from other authors."
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> [“You mustn't wait for someone to rescue you, . . . . A girl expecting rescue never learns to rescue herself. Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/you-mustn-t-wait-for-someone-to-rescue-you-a-girl-expecting-rescue/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab2/kate-morton-805_courage_you-mustn-t-wait-for-someone-to-rescue-y_305498.png)

> [A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/a-girl-expecting-rescue-never-learns-to-save-herself-even-with-the/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/999/kate-morton-805_courage_a-girl-expecting-rescue-never-learns-to_1048007.png)

> [“You mustn’t wait for someone to rescue you,” Mother would continue, a faraway look in her eyes. “A girl expecting rescue never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/you-mustn-t-wait-for-someone-to-rescue-you-mother-would-continue-a/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9e/kate-morton-805_courage_you-mustn-t-wait-for-someone-to-rescue-y_1332500.png)

> [“A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/a-girl-expecting-rescue-never-learns-to-save-herself/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/832/kate-morton-805_girl_a-girl-expecting-rescue-never-learns-to_2140880.png)

## Other authors on Rescue

## 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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