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.

  Kate Morton

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

  Kate Morton

  People, Way, Terrible

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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

  Mind, Woe, Busy

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

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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.

  Kate Morton

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

  Kate Morton

  Too Short, Moderation, Wells

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.129, 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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• 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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• 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

  Children, Past, Parent

  Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.26, 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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• 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

  Mother, Might, Happy Smile

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Writing, Might, Way

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• Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

  Kate Morton

  Girl, Cat, Curiosity

  Kate Morton (2012). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.472, Simon and Schuster

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• Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Adults, Ifs

  Abigail Tarttelin, Sahar Delijani, Christina Schwarz, Kate Morton, Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Atria Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: A Free Collection of Excerpts from Some of Our Favorite Writers”, p.15, 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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