Garden Quote by Kate Morton

“But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton”

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“It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known.”

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“Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.”

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“It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark, every unexplained…

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Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

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“home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.”

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“tiempo tiene su peculiar manera de moldear a la gente de forma que ellos mismos ya no se reconocen,”

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“I want to know how it feels to be altered by life”

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“She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape the rigid…

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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 one's child takes a…

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“... and I thought -not for the first time- what a true and simple pleasure it was, to be inside and sated when the…

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“Nell was like a witch. Her long silvery hair rolled into a bun on the back of her head, the narrow wooden house on…

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