Kate Morton Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Kate Morton
Kate Morton Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Kate Morton quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
You've said before, Ms. Nicolson, that your mother was a strong woman. She lived through the war,
— 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
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
She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.
— 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
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 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
Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious.
--The Changeling — Kate Morton
--The Changeling — Kate Morton
He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
— 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
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
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
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
I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
— Kate Morton
Even if she loathes it. To do so would be akin to denying the existence of an awkward child.
— 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
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
We are all victims of our human experience," Alice continued, "apt to view the present through the lens of our own past.
— 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
We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.
— Kate Morton