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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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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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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.

Kate Morton

Garden, Hands, Earth

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.408, 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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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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Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

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Longing, Victim, Pragmatic

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

Kate Morton

Wells, Wanted To Be Loved, Wanted

Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.

Kate Morton

Book, Simple, Self

Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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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

Running, Doors, Next

Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.261, 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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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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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

War, Book, Different

Kate Morton (2008). “The House at Riverton”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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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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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

Wall, Lips, Ancient

Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.59, 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.

Kate Morton

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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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

Book, Feelings, Adults

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True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.

Kate Morton

Book, Thinking, Intelligent

Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Phones, Cities, Lines

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

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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.

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Dream, Memories, Night

Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.706, Simon and Schuster

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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

Lying, Feelings, Littles

Kate Morton (2010). “The Distant Hours”, p.303, Pan Macmillan

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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

Kate Morton

Despair, Action, Oneself

Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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