Kate Morton

“Laurel wondered whether perhaps a person reached an age when so much was kept from them, so many details of life discussed…

— Kate Morton

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

— Kate Morton

“Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.”

— Kate Morton

“It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark,…

— Kate Morton

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

— Kate Morton

“home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.”

— Kate Morton

“tiempo tiene su peculiar manera de moldear a la gente de forma que ellos mismos ya no se reconocen,”

— Kate Morton

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Kate Morton

“... and I thought -not for the first time- what a true and simple pleasure it was, to be inside and sated…

— Kate Morton

“Nell was like a witch. Her long silvery hair rolled into a bun on the back of her head, the narrow wooden…

— Kate Morton

Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.

— 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…

— 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…

— Kate Morton

“It was safe to say that neither had ever known the other sort of love, the sort with fireworks and racing hearts…

— Kate Morton

She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

— Kate Morton

“Without sight to get in the way of things, the whole world was suddenly alive with sound: the lapping of water as…

— Kate Morton

“As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget.”

— Kate Morton

“Why did Hannah marry Teddy? Not because she loved him, but because she was prepared to love him.”

— Kate Morton

“-Before I started, when it was all in my head, the project was full of unlimited potential. Now that it's on film,…

— Kate Morton

“She was a bookish person who'd never been exposed to books: she was gifted with astute powers of observation, but her thoughts…

— Kate Morton

The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of…

— Kate Morton

“Romance makes people forget themselves, do silly things”

— Kate Morton

“I know, Granddad, the woods are thick and I'm a city slicker, but Ash was with me, and it was just as…

— Kate Morton