People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting. — Kate Morton Acting Copy Share Image
Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance. — Kate Morton Dance Copy Share Image
“Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.” — Kate Morton Accomplishments Copy Share Image
But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . . — Kate Morton Character Copy Share Image
“Full of life and light; blissfully unaware of all the future had in store.” — Kate Morton Life Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark.” — Kate Morton Dark Copy Share Image
“Why did Hannah marry Teddy? Not because she loved him, but because she was prepared to love him.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Aside from her marriage, her obituary is the only time a lady's name should appear in the newspaper. And God help her… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.” — Kate Morton History Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to feel at home in the past and a visitor to this strange and blanched experience we agree to… — Kate Morton Home Copy Share Image
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition… — Kate Morton Acquisition Copy Share Image
A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting. — Kate Morton Courage Copy Share Image
“Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious. --The Changeling” — Kate Morton Bitterness Copy Share Image
“It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different." "Not a mystery." Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."… — Kate Morton Authors Copy Share Image
“...if she didn't learn to stop her mind racing on ahead of her she'd end up running into a mountain made of… — Kate Morton Heart Copy Share Image
Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her… — Kate Morton Ability Copy Share Image
“Every elderly woman I've known has told me, at some point, and with varying degrees of wistfulness, that she's eighteen years old… — Kate Morton Aging Copy Share Image
She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“when she first came to Blackhurst, one twist and the same pieces were rearranged to create a vastly different picture. Where a… — Kate Morton Heart Copy Share Image
Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“The house remembered her. Laurel did not consider herself a romantic, but the sense was so strong that for a moment she… — Kate Morton Nostalgia Copy Share Image
“Over the course of weeks, taking great care never to revel her inward state of flux, Percy had evaluated her situation, observing… — Kate Morton Heart Copy Share Image
“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 Language Copy Share Image
“Alice stopped walking as a dragonfly hovered close. 'Yellow-winged darter.' The name came to mind of its own accord. She watched as… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Apart from such visits, for the first time in her life Eliza was truly alone. In the beginning, unfamiliar sounds, nocturnal sounds,… — Kate Morton Alone Copy Share Image
“Girls in Victorian London were employed in all manner of menial positions- domestic servants, fruit sellers, flower girls- and Eliza's depiction of… — Kate Morton Consumption Copy Share Image
“Nijinsky in 'Le Spectre de la rose' was like nothing I'd seen before. He danced a fifteen-minute solo and it passed like… — Kate Morton Ballet Copy Share Image
The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience:… — Kate Morton Acceptance Copy Share Image
“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 Friends Copy Share Image
“Eleanor unpacked the picnic basket and spread Mrs. Stevenson's goodies across it. As the sun rose higher in the sky, the four… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Some seasons later, the Princess of the kingdom was riding with her handmaiden on the edge of the dark woods. Though once… — Kate Morton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“...better to makes changes for oneself that try to mend holes torn by the decisions of others.” — Kate Morton Change Copy Share Image
“It matters not, for she did not need her eyes to tell her who she was. She knew it by your love… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people. — Kate Morton Ability Copy Share Image
“It’s only with age I have learned solely to listen to things I want to hear.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did. — Kate Morton Adults Copy Share Image
