Kate Morton Quotes

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

Kate Morton

Inspirational, Life, Missing

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

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Girl, Mean, Expecting

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

Kate Morton

Memories, Mistress

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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

Kate Morton

People, Way, Terrible

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Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

Kate Morton

Procrastination, Reluctance

Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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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

Writing, Thinking, Two

Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

Kate Morton

Enough, These Days

Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven

Kate Morton

True Friend, Dark, Light

Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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

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Mind, Woe, Busy

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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

Kate Morton

Children, Home, Magnet

Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

Kate Morton

Book, Together, Were Meant To Be

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

Kate Morton

Life Changing, Threshold, Crossings

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Real, Opportunity, Order

Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.

Kate Morton

Photography, Art, Memories

Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Garden, Hands, Earth

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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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

Real, Book, Fiction

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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

Phones, Cities, Lines

Kate Morton (2012). “The Secret Keeper”, p.272, Pan Macmillan

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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 was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery.

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Lazy, Magic, Rabbits

Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.529, Simon and Schuster

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What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.

Kate Morton

Perfect, Persons, Marrying

Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

Kate Morton

Second Chance, People, Giving

Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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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

Eye, Dust, Soul

Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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

Kate Morton

People, Stories, Refills

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Years, Missing, Gone

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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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

Years, People, Twenties

Kate Morton (2008). “The House at Riverton”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

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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

Would Be, Paper, Kind

Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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