"Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a……" — Kate Morton
"Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen."
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114 Quotes by Kate Morton
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say.…
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Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
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It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While…
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In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning…
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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them,…
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True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what…
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I love the structural part of the writing process.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it…
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In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May…
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YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for…
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Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does…
— Bill Milkowski
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In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her…
— Alice Stewart
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I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of…
— Ray Bradbury
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Excellent." As soon as Bergman left earshot Vayl said, "I am going to buy you some pom-poms and a short…
— Jennifer Rardin
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Cassandra,” he said, “I hope you know that poaching Muppets is illegal in this country.
— Jennifer Rardin
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Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the…
— Kate Morton
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King Duncan looked up and swept his gaze slowly around the room. Cassandra, he saw, was defiant as ever. Arald's…
— John Flanagan
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It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and…
— Kate Morton
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You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I’m sorry. I was just thinking of that stupid song, ‘Seasons in the Sun.’ You know, ‘we had joy, we…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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