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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

  Years, Missing, Gone

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

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

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  Second Chance, People, Giving

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

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  Years, People, Twenties

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

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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.

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  Eye, Dust, Soul

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

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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.

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  Would Be, Paper, Kind

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

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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

  Retrospect, Becoming, Realising

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• If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.

  Kate Morton

  Done, Apologizing, Convince

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Lying, Heart, Dark

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Responsibility, Years, Weight

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Heart, Responsibility

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.189, 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.

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  Mother, Might, Happy Smile

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

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  War, Book, Different

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

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

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  Girl, Cat, Curiosity

  Kate Morton (2012). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.472, 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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• 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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• But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

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  Actors, Fool, Hindsight

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

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  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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• Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

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  People, Photograph, Force

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

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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.

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  Children, Past, Parent

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

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  Running, Doors, Next

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

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

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  Wells, Wanted To Be Loved, Wanted

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.428, 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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• I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

  Kate Morton

  Passion, Writing, Stories

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