Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“This child lent a solidity to him and Lil. They were a family now, an unbreakable unit of three.” — Kate Morton Children Copy Share Image
“My thoughts swim. Back and forth, in and out, across the tides of history” — Kate Morton History Copy Share Image
“People aren't daft, . . . give 'em a bit of love and they'll never stray.” — Kate Morton Love Copy Share Image
I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . . — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Who are you, Dorothy?" she said beneath her breath. "Who were you, before you became Ma?” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing. — Kate Morton Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night.” — Kate Morton Anxiety Copy Share Image
But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The… — Kate Morton Garden Copy Share Image
Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“But it was not so complicated really. Such things rarely are. It was a simple case of stars aligning; those that didn't… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“You will know your job is done well when it goes unnoticed, that you have succeeded when you are unnoticed.” — Kate Morton Success Copy Share Image
“What she really felt like doing was reading. Escaping into the Enchanted Wood, up the Faraway Tree, or with the Famous Five… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television… — Kate Morton Funny Copy Share Image
“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 Books Copy Share Image
“Free as a bird' was the expression, and yet they weren't free at all, not as far as Saffy could tell: they… — Kate Morton Bird Copy Share Image
“Girls had changed. They had liberated themselves from their corsets only to throw themselves at the tyranny of the "diet plan." They… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in… — Kate Morton Disbelief Copy Share Image
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“And then he'd looked directly at her and briefly she'd seen something in his eyes, a shadow in the shape of Howard… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are… — Kate Morton Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“It was a glorious evening, the sun seeming to hesitate in the process of setting, as if it couldn't bear to end… — Kate Morton Brown eyes Copy Share Image
“Eliza had split each day between her two favorite places on the estate: the black rock down in the cove, on top… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“For centuries the Mountrachets had been keen horticulturists. Forebear after forebear had traveled far and wide, spanning the globe in search of… — Kate Morton Garden Copy Share Image
“Benjamin Munro was his name. She mouthed the syllables silently, Benjamin James Munro, twenty-six years old, late of London. He had no… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Alice dug into her pocket and pulled out her notebook, hurrying to make a note of the sensation and the day and… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“And at last, the wicked Queen's spell was broken, and the young woman, whom circumstance and cruelty had trapped in the body… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Without sight to get in the way of things, the whole world was suddenly alive with sound: the lapping of water as… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can tell just by looking at a door that there’s something interesting behind it.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.” — Kate Morton Book Copy Share Image
“Lack of potatoes left a person’s stomach growling, but absence of beauty hardened the soul.” — Kate Morton Beauty Copy Share Image
“Frailty begot frailty. Nothing caused lightheadedness so surely as day after day of stifling confinement.” — Kate Morton Frailty Copy Share Image
“To be faced with danger and find oneself fearless was thrilling.” — Kate Morton Courage Copy Share Image
... time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised ... — Kate Morton People Copy Share Image
