All Kate Morton Quotes
- Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man. Attention
- ...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince? Chose
- You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing. Inspirational
- Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything. Inspirational
- She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside. Able
- The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose.… Artifice
- Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings. Down
- Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was… Always Hid
- ... time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised ... Inspirational
- Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance. All
- There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are… Anchor
- It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and… Cassandra
- Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the… Alternate
- You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too… Afterwards
- Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies. Acquisition
- Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say? Ah
- Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so… Cassandra
- The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms… Acceptance
- The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting… Alone
- His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put… Air
- Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should… Ability
- To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused… Abandon
- He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything. Change
- She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. Beyond
- She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've… All