Kate Morton

“Odd snatches of memory, more like dreams.”

— Kate Morton

So much in life came down to timing.

— Kate Morton

“Love makes people do cruel things”

— Kate Morton

“Those who live in memories are never really dead.”

— Kate Morton

“Poisons are more my thing”

— Kate Morton

They say everyone needs something to love.

— Kate Morton

“I want to know how it feels to be altered by life”

— Kate Morton

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

— Kate Morton

“It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known.”

— Kate Morton

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

— Kate Morton

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

— Kate Morton

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

— Kate Morton

“They had money, but don’t you go talking about class.”

— Kate Morton

“... That was were the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots.”

— Kate Morton

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

— Kate Morton

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

— 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

“The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone's Eyes”

— Kate Morton

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

— 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

“By quirk of geography, people did not come unexpectedly to Loeanneth. The estate sat deep in a dell, surrounded by thick, briar-tangled…

— 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

I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could…

— Kate Morton

“I know what it meant. I worked it out myself. I've been reading about it. It was a metaphorical death. Sometimes the…

— Kate Morton

“One of the things I have come to know most surely in my work is that the belief system acquired in childhood…

— Kate Morton

“Tea and toast were the rule after long-haul flying. It was one of the great mysteries of the universe, that a person…

— 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 woman in whose body I had grown, in whose house I’d been raised was, in some vital ways, a stranger to…

— Kate Morton

“The house, she'd explained to them many times, had spoken to her; she'd listened, and it turned out they'd understood one another…

— Kate Morton

“She wondered sometimes how he stood the constant criticism. "Love," Mr. Llewellyn had said when she ventured as much to him. "We…

— Kate Morton

“Life'd be a lot easier if it were like a fairy tale," said Cassandra, "if people belonged to stock character types." "Oh,…

— Kate Morton

“By the time she entered the hidden garden, early light was sifting through the autumn-sparse canopy. Eliza took a deep breath. She'd…

— Kate Morton

“Even when they were very small Eliza had known that Sammy needed her more than she needed him, even before he caught…

— Kate Morton

Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong.…

— Kate Morton

“She sat on the little iron garden seat in the clearing at the top and looked down at the strange garden of…

— Kate Morton

“The garden is incredible. It's really overgrown, but underneath the brambles all kinds of plants have survived. There are paths, garden seats,…

— 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

“As the boat drew nearer to shore, and tiny dots in the distance became seagulls, she opened the book across her lap…

— Kate Morton

“They'd fallen into an easy routine, the three of them. Breakfast together in the morning, then Hughie would leave for work and…

— Kate Morton