The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides,' she said. 'It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.” — Kate Morton Flower Copy Share Image
A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the… — Kate Morton Ancient Copy Share Image
I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“You mustn't wait for someone to rescue you, . . . . A girl expecting rescue never learns to rescue herself. Even… — Kate Morton Courage Copy Share Image
To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Her hands pressed warm against the glass as her gaze swept the scene below: cream and pink roses, petals shining as if… — Kate Morton Flowers Copy Share Image
You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit… — Kate Morton Differences Copy Share Image
“You're a storyteller, Alice Edevane," Ben had told her late one afternoon, as the river tripped coolly by and the pigeons came… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to… — Kate Morton Art Copy Share Image
“While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are… — Kate Morton Children Copy Share Image
“All very well for a dull sort of girl to hitch her wheel to a man's wagon, but consider yourself warned, men… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“You mustn’t wait for someone to rescue you,” Mother would continue, a faraway look in her eyes. “A girl expecting rescue never… — Kate Morton Courage Copy Share Image
“Did your parents spoil you when you were small, Miss Burchill?’ ‘No,’ I said. ‘No, I don’t think they did.’ ‘I don’t… — Kate Morton Parenting Copy Share Image
“An expression of infinite wisdom, as if, in those first days of life, the small person retained the knowledge of a lifetime… — Kate Morton Knowledge Copy Share Image
You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it."… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“The ease I had come to expect with him had evaporated, replaced by awkwardness, a confusing tendency towards wrong turns and misunderstandings” — Kate Morton Awkwardness Copy Share Image
“It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to… — Kate Morton Death Copy Share Image
“...it seemed hope's glimmer always hovered in the distance, no matter how long one journeyed towards it without success.” — Kate Morton Glimmer Copy Share Image
Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering… — Kate Morton Duty Copy Share Image
“And Juniper had understood, somehow, that in Tom she'd found the person who could balance her, and that more than anything, to… — Kate Morton Fall in love Copy Share Image
“It is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of… — Kate Morton Revelation Copy Share Image
“And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“There were moments in which a person reached a crossroads, when something happened, out of the blue, to change the course of… — Kate Morton Crossroads Copy Share Image
“... and I thought -not for the first time- what a true and simple pleasure it was, to be inside and sated… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Ever since Eliza had discovered the book of fairy tales . . . had disappeared inside its faded pages, she'd understood the… — Kate Morton Books Copy Share Image
“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 Family Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Cassandra Copy Share Image
“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 Happiness Copy Share Image
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 Abyss Copy Share Image
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“My cheeks burned: with disillusionment, with the feverish afterglow of confrontation, but most hotly with embarrassment. I had perceived a closeness where… — Kate Morton Embarrassment Copy Share Image
Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
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 Good words Copy Share Image
