Quote by Kate Morton

“Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn’t shake the guilty suspicion that she…

— Kate Morton

Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she…

— Kate Morton

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…

— Kate Morton

“I willingly accept Cassandra's fate To speak the truth, although believed too late.”

— Anne Killigrew

“Cassandra buried her head in her pillow and wished she could just turn off her mind like she had the lights.”

— Anonymous

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it…

— Kate Morton

“As an only child, Cassandra found the well-worn paths of sibling interaction fascinating and horrifying in equal parts.”

— Kate Morton

“Simon: You always were wise beyond your years. Cassandra: No I wasn't. I used to be consciously naive.”

— Dodie Smith

“She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I…

— Ariel Dorfman

In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party…

— Jane Austen

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

— Alice Stewart

“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden…

— Kathleen Tessaro