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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.

  Kate Morton

  Men, Attention, Handsome

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

  Kate Morton

  Strong, Remember, Enough

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.

  Kate Morton

  Clever, Mean, Independent

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

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  Fun, Keeping Secrets, Knowing

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

  Kate Morton

  Events, Might, Remember

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

  Kate Morton

  Expectations, One Thing

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• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  Kate Morton

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

  Kate Morton

  Real, Blood, Names

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Given, Given Up

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• I love the structural part of the writing process.

  Kate Morton

  Writing, Process, Writing Process

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• She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

  Kate Morton

  Deals, Felt

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.

  Kate Morton

  Doors, Mets, Wanted

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• ...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

  Kate Morton

  Princess, Maids, Fairy Tale

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.495, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.

  Kate Morton

  Thinking, Trying

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.

  Kate Morton

  Summer, Stars, Rain

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

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  Tales, Storyteller

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

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• Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

  Kate Morton

  People, Unhappy, Knows

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.

  Kate Morton

  Party, Humble, House

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.454, Simon and Schuster

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