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It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away? — Kate Morton

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's. — Kate Morton

It was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled. — Kate Morton

You've said before, Ms. Nicolson, that your mother was a strong woman. She lived through the war, — Kate Morton

Ignorance clarifies. It selects and omits with placid perfection. — Kate Morton

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. — Kate Morton

They had money, but don't you go talking about class. — Kate Morton

It is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of a revelation. — Kate Morton

I learned long ago that silence invites all manner of confidences. — Kate Morton

Who are you, Dorothy?" she said beneath her breath. "Who were you, before you became Ma? — Kate Morton

She found a seat in the corner and sat down, opening the cover and breathing in the glorious dusty scent of papery possibility. — Kate Morton

Tetchily. She was fetching Daphne from Heathrow later; at least — Kate Morton

She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal. — Kate Morton

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination ... — Kate Morton

I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark. — Kate Morton

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again. — Kate Morton

People are fascinating, aren't they, the closer you get to knowing what makes them tick? — Kate Morton

When you love someone you'll do just about anything to keep them. — Kate Morton

Weary of knowing too much and understanding too little. — Kate Morton

Those who live in memories are never really dead. — Kate Morton

It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known. — Kate Morton

To hear years of one's life, one's passion, described so casually, relegated so absolutely to the past, was breathtaking. — Kate Morton

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. — Kate Morton

But there is a difference between enjoying someone's company, thinking them attractive, and finding oneself helplessly in love. — Kate Morton

There were moments in which a person reached a crossroads, when something happened, out of the blue, to change the course of life's events. — Kate Morton

A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: Ancient walls that sing the distant hours. — Kate Morton

Don't wait too long to realize what's important. Your family might drive you mad sometimes, but they're worth more to you than you could ever imagine. — Kate Morton

Vivien also knew that the affair was one-sided and that her feelings were not something she would ever share with him. — Kate Morton

It's the past. Thoughts and dreams, hopes and hurts, all brewed together, fermenting slowly in the fusty air, unable ever to dissipate completely. — Kate Morton

We do not always have a choice in where and how and whom, and love gives us the courage to withstand that which we never thought we could. — Kate Morton

Was that what Nell had done, too? Forsaken the life and the family she'd been given, to focus instead on the one she'd been without. — Kate Morton

The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
-The Crone's Eyes — Kate Morton

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself. — Kate Morton

Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future. — Kate Morton

Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious.
--The Changeling — Kate Morton

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything. — Kate Morton

Love, Laurel, that's the only reason to get married. For love. — Kate Morton

Life was like that, doors of possibility constantly opening and closing as one blindly made one's way through. — Kate Morton

She had found there were very few genuinely dull people; the trick was to ask them the right questions. — Kate Morton

Make sure you write it all down, now. Everything you see and think and feel. Your voice is your own, it matters. — Kate Morton

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't. — Kate Morton

...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess. — Kate Morton

The sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to anything beyond explanation. — Kate Morton

The ease I had come to expect with him had evaporated, replaced by awkwardness, a confusing tendency towards wrong turns and misunderstandings — Kate Morton

There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me. — Kate Morton

Frailty begot frailty. Nothing caused lightheadedness so surely as day after day of stifling confinement. — Kate Morton

shoes made soft, apologetic sounds. — Kate Morton

babies in prams at the park. — Kate Morton

Nature is cruel. Isn't that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they're still beautiful. Now they'll stay that way. — Kate Morton

gaol of her closed bedroom door. 'I was only — Kate Morton

Sometimes the distance of years - all that was contained within its concertina folds - was a physical ache. — Kate Morton

Without thinking twice, he'd lifted his hand, still clutching the penknife, and drawn it swiftly along her milky skin, made his pain her own . . . — Kate Morton

How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road? — Kate Morton

Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open. — Kate Morton

So much in life came down to timing. — Kate Morton

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else. — Kate Morton

Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there were worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had an opinion. — Kate Morton

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 refused forgiveness. — Kate Morton

Full of life and light; blissfully unaware of all the future had in store. — Kate Morton

I read a lot ... I love books. I work with books. Books are my life. — Kate Morton

I feel like a von Trapp," Ruby said between puffs, "But fatter, older and with absolutely no energy for singing. — Kate Morton

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar. — Kate Morton

Why did Hannah marry Teddy? Not because she loved him, but because she was prepared to love him. — Kate Morton

She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people. — Kate Morton

You will know your job is done well when it goes unnoticed, that you have succeeded when you are unnoticed. — Kate Morton

And time thickened so that the seconds passed like years. — Kate Morton

He was far more comfortable reading about the lives and ideas of others than describing his own. — Kate Morton

Mothers tend toward right on most things. — Kate Morton

He was a scribble of a man. — Kate Morton

People who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances. — Kate Morton

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion. — Kate Morton

I am not a storyteller ... not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. — Kate Morton

Even if she loathes it. To do so would be akin to denying the existence of an awkward child. — Kate Morton

Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it. — Kate Morton

I understand well the peculiar guilt of tragedy's survivors. — Kate Morton

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another. — Kate Morton

I can't imagine facing the end of the day without a story to drop into on my way towards sleep. — Kate Morton

It matters not, for she did not need her eyes to tell her who she was. She knew it by your love for her. — Kate Morton

Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer. — Kate Morton

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing. — Kate Morton

The young are quick to presume themselves the exclusive possessors of all strong feelings. — Kate Morton

who does any unauthorized act in relation — Kate Morton

The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned. — Kate Morton

I love the structural part of the writing process. — Kate Morton

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings. — Kate Morton

Poisons are more my thing — Kate Morton

An expression of infinite wisdom, as if, in those first days of life, the small person retained the knowledge of a lifetime just passed. — Kate Morton

Adults weren't supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did. — Kate Morton

Although it was almost midnight, London wasn't dark. Cities like London never were, she suspected, not anymore. The modern world had killed nighttime. — Kate Morton

It's only with age I have learned solely to listen to things I want to hear. — Kate Morton

We are all victims of our human experience," Alice continued, "apt to view the present through the lens of our own past. — Kate Morton

That was were the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots. — Kate Morton

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized. — Kate Morton

Loeanneth, so greedy and bold. She wondered — Kate Morton

As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget. — Kate Morton

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton

She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star. — Kate Morton

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets. — Kate Morton

Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say? — Kate Morton

We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine. — Kate Morton