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He would love her with a passion that both frightened and revived him, a desperation that made a mockery of his neat dreams for the future. -- Kate Morton
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It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things? -- Kate Morton
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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
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My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust. -- Kate Morton
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All very well for a dull sort of girl to hitch her wheel to a man's wagon, but consider yourself warned, men enjoy a bit of sport, and they all like to catch the brightest prize, but once they do? That's when the fun and games end. His games, her fun. -- Kate Morton
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The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -- Kate Morton
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...it seemed hope's glimmer always hovered in the distance, no matter how long one journeyed towards it without success. -- Kate Morton
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How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road? -- Kate Morton
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A brisk wind wove through the bushes, twirling the leaves so that their pale undersides fluttered towards the sun. Like children thrust suddenly into the spotlight, flitting between nerves and self-importance. -- Kate Morton
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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
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The single static note amidst the swirl of activity was Grandmother deShiel, who sat small and hunched on the cast-iron garden seat outside the library, lost in her cobwebbed memories and completely oblivious to the round glass lanterns being strung up in the trees around her - -- Kate Morton
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Lack of potatoes left a person's stomach growling, but absence of beauty hardened the soul. -- Kate Morton
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Odd snatches of memory, more like dreams. -- Kate Morton
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Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination ... -- Kate Morton
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Those who live in memories are never really dead. -- Kate Morton
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It was madness, it was possession, it was desire. Most of all, though, it was love. -- Kate Morton
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made from a lovely piece of Liberty fabric ordered years ago, not because Saffy had a project in mind, but because it was simply too beautiful not to possess. -- Kate Morton
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Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment. -- Kate Morton
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Love affairs, in their beginnings, are all about the present. But there is a point in each
an event, an exchange, some other unseen trigger
which forces the past and the future back into focus. -- Kate Morton
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difference between tales and truth, -- Kate Morton
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You mustn't wait for someone to rescue you, ... A girl expecting rescue never learns to rescue herself. Even with the means, she'll find her courage wanting. -- Kate Morton
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Like faint flowers in the diaphonous fabrics of the twenties: beautiful, trivial fabrics so flimsy they could not hope to last? -- Kate Morton
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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 at the time. -- Kate Morton
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Sometimes 'feelings' aren't as airy-fairy as they seem. Sometimes they're just the product of observations we haven't realized we've been making. -- Kate Morton
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People aren't daft, ... give 'em a bit of love and they'll never stray. -- Kate Morton
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There was a pessimism in his soul, a darkness in his outlook, that always left her somehow more aware of hard edges than she had been before. -- Kate Morton
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Ignorance clarifies. It selects and omits with placid perfection. -- Kate Morton
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Dolly held the letter tightly and, with a final nod of resolution, started towards her new life, no idea what the future might bring, but determined, suddenly, to meet it. -- Kate Morton
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It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away? -- Kate Morton
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I'm just titivating our dinner. -- Kate Morton
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Oh, but I do enjoy gray skies! They're so much more complex than blue ones. -- Kate Morton
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. -- Kate Morton
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Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering through pages as you promise yourself just one more chapter; they shouldn't put you to sleep as you tackle a paragraph for the fifth time. -- Kate Morton
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The cage door opened and the cuckoo bird fell, fell, fell, until finally her stunted wings opened, and she found that she could fly. -- Kate Morton
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In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments. -- Kate Morton
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Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is. -- Kate Morton
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That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors. -- Kate Morton
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And Juniper had understood, somehow, that in Tom she'd found the person who could balance her, and that more than anything, to fall in love was to be caught, to be saved ... -- Kate Morton
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The simplest falsehoods are the strongest. -- Kate Morton
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After so many months of hoping, long spells of illness and worry and confinement, I hold in my arms my darling child. Everything else fades away. She is perfect. -- Kate Morton
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A noise, and the past was chased away, dispersed into the shadows like smoke by the brighter, louder present. -- Kate Morton
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A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting. -- Kate Morton
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You will know your job is done well when it goes unnoticed, that you have succeeded when you are unnoticed. -- Kate Morton
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She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal. -- Kate Morton
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I know what it meant. I worked it out myself. I've been reading about it. It was a metaphorical death. Sometimes the cards speak in metaphors. It's me. I'm dead on the inside, I've felt it for a long time. As if I died and everything that's happening is someone else's strange and awful dream. -- Kate Morton
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A figment who'd slipped through the cracks of history and been forgotten. -- Kate Morton
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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
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The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly ... It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself. -- Kate Morton
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The scattered rosebushes, glorious by day, revealed themselves by night an awkward collection of lonely, bony old ladies. -- Kate Morton
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It's only with age I have learned solely to listen to things I want to hear. -- Kate Morton
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She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be. -- Kate Morton
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I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark. -- Kate Morton
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I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper. -- Kate Morton
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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. -- Kate Morton
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One of the things I have come to know most surely in my work is that the belief system acquired in childhood is never fully escaped; it may submerge itself for a while, but it always returns in times of need to lay claim to the soul it shaped. -- Kate Morton
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Long-dead men leered at them from heavy gilt frames and Eliza thought how ghastly it must be to have one's portrait painted, to sit still for so long, all so that a layer of oneself could be left forever on a canvas, -- Kate Morton
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Tetchily. She was fetching Daphne from Heathrow later; at least -- Kate Morton
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Adults weren't supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did. -- Kate Morton
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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
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Vivien also knew that the affair was one-sided and that her feelings were not something she would ever share with him. -- Kate Morton
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My thoughts swim. Back and forth, in and out, across the tides of history -- Kate Morton
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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
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The only thing one can count on is that no one else can truly be counted on. Alice -- Kate Morton
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The woman in whose body I had grown, in whose house I'd been raised was, in some vital ways, a stranger to me. I'd gone thirty years without ascribing her any more dimension than the paper dollies I'd played with as a girl with the pasted on smiles and the folding tab dresses. -- Kate Morton
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Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?'
'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.'
'The city still has working phone booths?'
'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble. -- Kate Morton
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The thing she valued high above the rest, was his strength of character. Stephen Nicolson had the courage of his convictions: he would never let his lover bend his will, and Dorothy liked that; there was a danger, she thought, in the sort of loving that made people act against type. -- Kate Morton
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You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page. -- Kate Morton
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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
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The landscape of one's childhood was more vibrant than any other. It didn't matter where it was or what it looked like, the sights and sounds imprinted differently. They became part of a person, inescapable. -- Kate Morton
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Watching the vast ocean, the flickering sunlight, thinking of the distant lands, Eliza was enveloped by a feeling quite unlike any she'd experienced before. A warmth, a glimpse of possibility, an absence of wariness- -- Kate Morton
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That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets. -- Kate Morton
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But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists. -- Kate Morton
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I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe ... -- Kate Morton
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She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free ... -- Kate Morton
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You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor."
"I don't want to survive it."
"I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice ... -- Kate Morton
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion. -- Kate Morton
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They say everyone needs something to love. -- Kate Morton
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Children don't require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence. -- Kate Morton
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It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known. -- Kate Morton
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It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar. -- Kate Morton
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Poisons are more my thing -- Kate Morton
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I understood somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost. -- Kate Morton
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This child lent a solidity to him and Lil. They were a family now, an unbreakable unit of three. -- Kate Morton
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It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness. -- Kate Morton
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A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven -- Kate Morton
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When I was small, I always hid to read. I couldn't shake the feeling that because reading was so pleasurable, it must somehow be illicit. -- Kate Morton
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Mrs. Bird smiled at me as I arrived at her side. "They can surprise us, can't they, our parents? The things they got up to before we were born."
"Yes," I said. "Almost like they were real people once. -- Kate Morton
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May your past be a pleasant memory, Your future filled with delight and mystery, Your now a glorious moment, That fills your life with deep contentment. -- Kate Morton
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Her father had once said that the poor might suffer poverty, but the rich had to contend with uselessness, and there was nothing like idleness to eat away at a person's soul. -- Kate Morton
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People change as they get older ... grow wiser, make better decisions ... i am very old,Laurel. Anyone who lives as long as I have can't help but collect regrets along the way ... things they did in the past ... things they wish they'd done differently. -- Kate Morton
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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
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His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story. -- Kate Morton
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People who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances. -- Kate Morton
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My heart flutters a little. Or something inside my heart flutters; an artery worn so thin that a flap has come loose, is waving about, in the current of my blood. -- Kate Morton
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Alice experienced one of her swift certainties then. She wasn't sure where they came from, these insights into other people's states of mind, only that they arrived unexpectedly and fully formed. She just knew things sometimes. To -- Kate Morton
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She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside. -- Kate Morton
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she abhorred the expression Everything happens for a reason. Certainly there were consequences to everything that happened, but that was an entirely different prospect. -- Kate Morton
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She had a way of speaking that eschewed intonation. It was a leveler, making the ordinary seem extraordinary and vice versa. -- Kate Morton
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Tragedy has been described as 'the conflict between desire and possibility.' Following this definition, is The Forgotten Garden a tragedy? If so, in what way/s? -- Kate Morton
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Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person. -- Kate Morton
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I should think less of myself if no one disliked me. -- Kate Morton
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Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another. -- Kate Morton
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She was the eldest now and had inherited the vague, relentless, unsolicited responsibility such familial rank demanded. -- Kate Morton
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We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine. -- Kate Morton
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Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer. -- Kate Morton
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I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested
intrigued even
by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain. -- Kate Morton
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the sun seeming to hesitate in the process of setting, as if it couldn't bear to end the day. It was teetering on the horizon, throwing ribbons of pink and mauve across the sky like life ropes, and the air was sweet with jasmine. -- Kate Morton
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My cheeks burned: with disillusionment, with the feverish afterglow of confrontation, but most hotly with embarrassment. I had perceived a closeness where none existed. -- Kate Morton
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When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge. -- Kate Morton
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Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base -- Kate Morton
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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
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You've said before, Ms. Nicolson, that your mother was a strong woman. She lived through the war, -- Kate Morton
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we'd meet at Lyons Corner House," she whispered, hurrying -- Kate Morton
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So much in life came down to timing. -- Kate Morton
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Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse. -- Kate Morton
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There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book. -- Kate Morton
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Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? -- Kate Morton
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If she didn't learn to stop her mind racing on ahead of her she'd end up running into a mountain made of her own imaginings. -- Kate Morton
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to desire fewer possessions and to possess greater love. -- Kate Morton
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Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history]. -- Kate Morton
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Romance makes people forget themselves, do silly things -- Kate Morton
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Love is like that: insistent, sure, persuasive. It silences easily all whispers of misgiving. -- Kate Morton
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I feel like a von Trapp," Ruby said between puffs, "But fatter, older and with absolutely no energy for singing. -- Kate Morton
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Murder in and of itself was not engaging; it was the drive to kill, the human factor, the fervors and furies motivating the dreadful act that rendered it compelling. Alice -- Kate Morton
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Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it. -- Kate Morton
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Time is the master of perspective. A dispassionate master, breathtakingly efficient. -- Kate Morton
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But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. -- Kate Morton
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Who are you, Dorothy?" she said beneath her breath. "Who were you, before you became Ma? -- Kate Morton
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she lost her family in the Blitz, she started again. Did you inherit her strength, do you think? Is that what's enabled you to survive, indeed to thrive, in a notoriously tough business?" The -- Kate Morton
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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
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If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong. -- Kate Morton
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He was far more comfortable reading about the lives and ideas of others than describing his own. -- Kate Morton
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life wasn't a fairy tale and there were instances when one couldn't have everything one wanted, not at the same time. As -- Kate Morton
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Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies. -- Kate Morton
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These weren't just any walls, these were the stones of Milderhurst Castle, beneath whose skin the distant hours were whispering, watching. -- Kate Morton
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ALL HOUSES have hearts; hearts that have loved, hearts that have billowed with contentment, hearts that have been broken. -- Kate Morton
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The original fib was dreary enough, the additional biographical titbits positively inane. -- Kate Morton
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staring at her with bottomless eyes, filled with all the things he'd never now have the chance to say. -- Kate Morton
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Life was like that, doors of possibility constantly opening and closing as one blindly made one's way through. -- Kate Morton
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In her relief, Eleanor had stood for a time in the darkened room, watching the faint undulations on the lake, silver-rimmed clouds being drawn across the pewter sky, nursing the uncanny sense of being the only person on earth awake. -- Kate Morton
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It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season. -- Kate Morton
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To tell the truth, she didn't want to; she liked the constancy of preoccupation. -- Kate Morton
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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 melancholy, took the shadowy form of the same unanswered question, something that had been there since she was sixteen years old - her mother's unspoken secret. -- Kate Morton
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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
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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
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Better to makes changes for oneself that try to mend holes torn by the decisions of others. -- Kate Morton
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Like the kaleidoscope in the nursery that had so delighted her when she first came to Blackhurst, one twist and the same pieces were rearranged to create a vastly different picture. -- Kate Morton
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She was the sort of person who needed to be kept happy, he realized. Not as a matter of selfish expectation, but as a simple fact of design; like a piano or a harp, she'd been made to function best at a certain tuning. -- Kate Morton
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She wasn't sure exactly, but she'd known it absolutely: there was more to life, and it was waiting for her. -- Kate Morton
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Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised ... -- Kate Morton
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It was safe to say that neither had ever known the other sort of love, the sort with fireworks and racing hearts and physical desires. -- Kate Morton
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he was a man on a date with destiny, -- Kate Morton
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The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear. -- Kate Morton
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As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget. -- Kate Morton
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There was a lid for each pot, she'd told me often and soberly, and she thanked God she'd found her lid in my grandfather. -- Kate Morton
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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open. -- Kate Morton
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How ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave. -- Kate Morton
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Dragonflies didn't imagine they could sense the future; they just flew about, enjoying the sun on their wings. -- Kate Morton
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She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages. -- Kate Morton
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The list is long and its keeper bitter. -- Kate Morton
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I can't imagine facing the end of the day without a story to drop into on my way towards sleep. -- Kate Morton
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Don't you find, Mr. Luxton, that often the very things one seeks can be found right under one's own nose? -- Kate Morton
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All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again. -- Kate Morton
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What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love. -- Kate Morton
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There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it. -- Kate Morton
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She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people. -- Kate Morton
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But it was not so complicated really. Such things rarely are. It was a simple case of stars aligning; those that didn't being nudged into place. -- Kate Morton
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There's something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you're inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it's just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away. -- Kate Morton
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-Before I started, when it was all in my head, the project was full of unlimited potential. Now that it's on film, it feels bordered by limitations.
-I suspect that's the way with most endeavors. -- Kate Morton
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She had found there were very few genuinely dull people; the trick was to ask them the right questions. -- Kate Morton
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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
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Laurel wondered whether perhaps a person reached an age when so much was kept from them, so many details of life discussed and decided elsewhere,misheard or misunderstood, that to be surprised was no longer disconcerting. -- Kate Morton
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A place is more than the sum of its physical parts; it's a repository for memories, a record and retainer of all that has happened within its boundaries. -- Kate Morton
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You always presume there's time ahead, until one day you realize there isn't. -- Kate Morton
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The appearance of plenty can be deceptive. It doesn't always mean a person is well. -- Kate Morton
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The house, she'd explained to them many times, had spoken to her; she'd listened, and it turned out they'd understood one another very well indeed. Greenacres was an imperious old lady, a little worn, to be sure, cranky in her own way-but who wouldn't be? -- Kate Morton
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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 boundaries of words and speak instead with such a fluid language. -- Kate Morton
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Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept. -- Kate Morton
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For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known. -- Kate Morton
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Strange that in the day of tumult, it should be something so innocuous as a dribble of water that prompts a person to tears. -- Kate Morton
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And time thickened so that the seconds passed like years. -- Kate Morton
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The ease I had come to expect with him had evaporated, replaced by awkwardness, a confusing tendency towards wrong turns and misunderstandings -- Kate Morton
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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
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no matter how hard a person ran, no matter how fresh the start they gave themselves, the past had a way of reaching across the years to catch them. -- Kate Morton
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A man had said that to her once at the stage door. She'd been leaving after a theatre session, buzzing still with the high of performance, and he'd stopped her to say how much he'd enjoyed it. "You've a great talent for observation," he'd said. "Ears, eyes, and heart, all at once. -- Kate Morton
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It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different."
"Not a mystery."
Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."
Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing. -- Kate Morton
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But it is human, is it not, to long for that from which we are barred? -- Kate Morton
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Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future. -- Kate Morton
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Alice felt a surge of pity for them, stuck as they were within the white-hot glow of youth, when everything seemed so vital, so essential, so important. -- Kate Morton
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Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious.
--The Changeling -- Kate Morton
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Love, Laurel, that's the only reason to get married. For love. -- Kate Morton
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She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained. -- Kate Morton
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For home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. -- Kate Morton
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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
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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
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Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime! -- Kate Morton
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Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it. -- Kate Morton
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She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well. -- Kate Morton
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Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings. -- Kate Morton
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Frailty begot frailty. Nothing caused lightheadedness so surely as day after day of stifling confinement. -- Kate Morton
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Even if she loathes it. To do so would be akin to denying the existence of an awkward child. -- Kate Morton
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Make sure you write it all down, now. Everything you see and think and feel. Your voice is your own, it matters. -- Kate Morton
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting. -- Kate Morton
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I understand well the peculiar guilt of tragedy's survivors. -- Kate Morton
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I sometimes feel my entire life is a series of accidents and chances- not that I am complaining. One can be very happy having relinquished all expectation of control. -- Kate Morton
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This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade. -- Kate Morton
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Loeanneth, so greedy and bold. She wondered -- Kate Morton
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No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel. -- Kate Morton
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She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. -- Kate Morton
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They had money, but don't you go talking about class. -- Kate Morton
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To be faced with danger and find oneself fearless was thrilling. -- Kate Morton
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Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it. -- Kate Morton
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That was were the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots. -- Kate Morton
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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
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Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything. -- Kate Morton
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The Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented. -- Kate Morton
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When you love someone you'll do just about anything to keep them. -- Kate Morton
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But there is a difference between enjoying someone's company, thinking them attractive, and finding oneself helplessly in love. -- Kate Morton
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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
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There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me. -- Kate Morton
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Which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince? -- Kate Morton
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It's not easy, getting old, feeling one's relevance slip away. -- Kate Morton
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But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight ... -- Kate Morton
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Something inside Dolly curled up and died. Things could not have been worse. Except that suddenly they were. -- Kate Morton
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People are fascinating, aren't they, the closer you get to knowing what makes them tick? -- Kate Morton
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Over the course of weeks, taking great care never to revel her inward state of flux, Percy had evaluated her situation, observing her feelings from all angles before finally reaching the conclusion that she was, quite clearly, several shades of crazy. -- Kate Morton
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair. -- Kate Morton
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As an only child, Cassandra found the well-worn paths of sibling interaction fascinating and horrifying in equal parts. -- Kate Morton
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Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man. -- Kate Morton
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Wondering how it was that one person's absence could rob the day so wholly of its shape and meaning. -- Kate Morton
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The young are quick to presume themselves the exclusive possessors of all strong feelings. -- Kate Morton
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I want to be independent. To meet interesting people ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet. -- Kate Morton
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It was an isidious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it. It was hope, too, that prevented a person taking counsel from experience. -- Kate Morton
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Was embarrassed; she wished only to melt into the ground. To dissolve -- Kate Morton
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Then lifted the book to my nose and breathed the ink in from its pages. The scent of possibilities. -- Kate Morton
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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
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Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales. -- Kate Morton
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It was true what people said, that when one became old (and how sneakily that happened, how sly time was), memories of the long-ago past, repressed for decades, were suddenly bright and clear. A -- Kate Morton
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Creatures that grow up in the wilderness turn out wild. -- Kate Morton
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They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions ... -- Kate Morton
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Nana never remarried, but not for lack of offers. She was resolute: it was one thing to be a young man's darling, she said, but she wasn't going to be an old man's slave. -- Kate Morton
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How bright such memories seem when the life they catalogue is threatened! Afterwards, -- Kate Morton
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Love makes people do cruel things -- Kate Morton
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It was not the first time I had been reminded of what happened at Riverton, to Robbie and the Hartford sisters. Once -- Kate Morton
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Free as a bird' was the expression, and yet they weren't free at all, not as far as Saffy could tell: they were bound to one another by their habits, their seasonal needs, their biology, their nature, their birth. No freer than anyone else. Still, they knew the exhilaration of flight. -- Kate Morton
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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 loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose. -- Kate Morton
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Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better. -- Kate Morton
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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
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He was a scribble of a man. -- Kate Morton
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Boredom, as her mother had always told them, was a state to be pitied, the province of the witless. -- Kate Morton
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History was about to intervene: real adventure, real escape and adulthood were lurking, laughing, round the corner -- Kate Morton
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I learned long ago that silence invites all manner of confidences. -- Kate Morton
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But the night times have a way of encouraging extremes -- Kate Morton
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Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled memories. -- Kate Morton
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As I already said, they didn't look like much
but beauty's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? -- Kate Morton
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Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power. -- Kate Morton
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For the time was almost upon him, he could -- Kate Morton
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...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess. -- Kate Morton
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I am not a storyteller ... not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. -- Kate Morton
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To hear years of one's life, one's passion, described so casually, relegated so absolutely to the past, was breathtaking. -- Kate Morton
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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
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He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything. -- Kate Morton
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gaol of her closed bedroom door. 'I was only -- Kate Morton
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Solid human being, moving in and out of the orbits of others. -- Kate Morton
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A person never forgets the landscape of their childhood'. -- Kate Morton
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Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say? -- Kate Morton
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After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. -- Kate Morton
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shoes made soft, apologetic sounds. -- Kate Morton
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soul it shaped. Laurel -- Kate Morton
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You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing. -- Kate Morton
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The wedding photographs were stained with black umbrellas. -- Kate Morton
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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
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babies in prams at the park. -- Kate Morton
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Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other. -- Kate Morton
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Why did Hannah marry Teddy? Not because she loved him, but because she was prepared to love him. -- Kate Morton
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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 cold and the stalkless dark spread out across the world. -- Kate Morton
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It was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled. -- Kate Morton
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Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. -- Kate Morton
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sunlight had made shards of glass in the ruins glitter and sparkle, -- Kate Morton
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I've been sitting here watching the river. It never stops, you know. -- Kate Morton
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Youth is an arrogant place... -- Kate Morton
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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
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Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized. -- Kate Morton
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Sometimes the distance of years - all that was contained within its concertina folds - was a physical ache. -- Kate Morton
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Weary of knowing too much and understanding too little. -- Kate Morton
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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, too. -- Kate Morton
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Full of life and light; blissfully unaware of all the future had in store. -- Kate Morton
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It was just the same as spotting the scaffolding in other writers' books. Awareness of construction didn't diminish her pleasure, only added to it. -- Kate Morton
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I read a lot ... I love books. I work with books. Books are my life. -- Kate Morton
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He gave the impression of sorrow past, deeply felt and poorly mended. -- Kate Morton
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Mothers tend toward right on most things. -- Kate Morton
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We are all victims of our human experience," Alice continued, "apt to view the present through the lens of our own past. -- Kate Morton
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who does any unauthorized act in relation -- Kate Morton
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Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together. -- Kate Morton
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The sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to anything beyond explanation. -- Kate Morton
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Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks. -- Kate Morton
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Nothing good comes from a death without a funeral. -- Kate Morton
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I love the structural part of the writing process. -- Kate Morton
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I am beginning to feel at home in the past and a visitor to this strange and blanched experience we agree to call the present -- Kate Morton
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Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance. -- Kate Morton
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She'd caught her by the edge of her shadow. -- Kate Morton
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Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps. -- Kate Morton
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I want to know how it feels to be altered by life -- Kate Morton
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Companions were to be valued, wherever one found them. -- Kate Morton