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One Quotes by Kate Morton
- It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part…
- Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
- Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend…
- It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
- Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.
- 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.
- The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose.…
- It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and…
- Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.
- The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms…
- 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 either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've…
- After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.
- Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
- My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down,…
- I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that…
- . . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
- She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up…
- I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
- Her eyes, though tired, had the glint of one who never stopped expecting to be amused, and her mouth turned up at the corners as…
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