“How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?” — Kate Morton Journey Copy Share Image
“I’ve been sitting here watching the river. It never stops, you know.” — Kate Morton River Copy Share Image
“The appearance of plenty can be deceptive. It doesn't always mean a person is well.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Did those with passage booked on death’s silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?” — Kate Morton Death Copy Share Image
She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“...as I already said, they didn't look like much--but beauty's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?” — Kate Morton Beauty Copy Share Image
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. — Kate Morton Actors Copy Share Image
“-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 Cinema Copy Share Image
“A brisk wind wove through the bushes, twirling the leaves so that their pale undersides fluttered towards the sun. Like children thrust… — Kate Morton Children Copy Share Image
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 Adults Copy Share Image
“ALL HOUSES have hearts; hearts that have loved, hearts that have billowed with contentment, hearts that have been broken.” — Kate Morton Happiness Copy Share Image
The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear. — Kate Morton Bears Copy Share Image
For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not,… — Kate Morton Books Copy Share Image
“They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...” — Kate Morton Children Copy Share Image
“History was about to intervene: real adventure, real escape and adulthood were lurking, laughing, round the corner” — Kate Morton Adventure Copy Share Image
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise… — Kate Morton Book Copy Share Image
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do,… — Kate Morton Book Copy Share Image
My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there werre worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had… — Kate Morton Life Copy Share Image
Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden… — Kate Morton Coming home Copy Share Image
“Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“people change as they get older…grow wiser, make better decisions...i am very old,Laurel. Anyone who lives as long as I have can't… — Kate Morton People change Copy Share Image
“With a glance back towards the house, he pulled the secret sketches from within. He'd been working at them on and off… — Kate Morton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“The sun had lit up the top row of leadlight windows, and the family home, polished to within an inch of its… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“There was much work to be done in the crone's cottage, but the Princess was never heard to complain, for she was… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Cassandra lifted the apple to her lips. The sunny scent was strong as she bit into it. An apple, from a tree… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“When she was a girl, Eleanor had completely believed the tale. That Zephyr brought her back from Africa with him, a pearl… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“They'd eaten every meal outdoors, hard-boiled eggs and cheese from a picnic basket, and drunk wine under the lilac tree in the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“And as the train whistled its imminent departure, a small girl wearing neat plaits and someone else's shoes climbed its iron stairs.… — Kate Morton Fitness Copy Share Image
“Sunlight was everywhere, glittering gold off the bright green leaves of the garden. A blackcap, concealed within the foliage of a nearby… — Kate Morton Birdsong Copy Share Image
“. . . happiness grows at our own firesides, . . . . It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.” — Kate Morton Flower Copy Share Image
...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince? — Kate Morton Fairy Copy Share Image
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. — Kate Morton Book Copy Share Image
“tiempo tiene su peculiar manera de moldear a la gente de forma que ellos mismos ya no se reconocen,” — Kate Morton Amor Copy Share Image
