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Away Quotes by Kate Morton
- I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade…
- The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting…
- She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered…
- Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.
- There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond,…
- And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth…
- The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear.
- It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius