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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

  Mother, Children, Stories

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Allies, Acquisition, Compulsion

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft countenance. In others, however, it leads to the formation of a tiny ice flint in their heart. Ice that, though at times concealed, never properly melts. Rose, though she would have liked to be one of the former, knew herself deep down to be one of the latter.

  Kate Morton

  Beautiful, Heart, Acceptance

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• Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?

  Kate Morton

  Grandmother, Past, Voice

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Children, Cold, Said

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Book, Air, Together

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

  Kate Morton

  Fear, Natural, Explanation

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Choices, Survivor, Want

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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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

  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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• Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

  Kate Morton

  Cancer, Rejection, Persons

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.329, Simon and Schuster

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• when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.

  Kate Morton

  When You Love Someone, Love Someone

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

  Kate Morton

  Unique, Way, Imagine

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.839, Simon and Schuster

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• That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

  Kate Morton

  Character, Interesting, Secret

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.350, Simon and Schuster

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• But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

  Kate Morton

  Garden, House, Stranger

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• While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

  Kate Morton

  People, Unhappy, Enough

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

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  Book, Together, Purpose

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

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• Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

  Kate Morton

  Grief, Poet, Loved Ones

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.887, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Wall, Reality, Doors

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Hate, Soul, Littles

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Light, Secret, Letters

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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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. p493

  Kate Morton

  Hurt, Night, Anxiety

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• But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

  Kate Morton

  Experts, Virtue, Hindsight

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• They say everyone needs something to love.

  Kate Morton

  Needs

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• . . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.

  Kate Morton

  Found, Companion

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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