Kate Morton Quotes - Page 5

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• A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

  Kate Morton

  Listening, Way, Understood

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• So much in life came down to timing.

  Kate Morton

  Timing

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.

  Kate Morton

  Life, Princess, Differences

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.

  Kate Morton

  Girl, Heart, Men

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.445, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

  Kate Morton

  Character, Funny Things, People

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Taken, Character

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.

  Kate Morton

  Thinking, Smell, Air

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton

  Kate Morton

  Memories, House

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• Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.

  Kate Morton

  Memories, War, Past

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

  Kate Morton

  Sleep, Monsters, Reason

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Distant Hours”, p.438, Pan Macmillan

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• It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.

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  Loneliness, Self, Way

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliable; with nothing to anchor them, there is nothing to stop them drifting in opposite directions. If it is string that binds, it will eventually snap and the points will separate; if elastic, they will continue to part, further and further, until the strain reaches its limit and they are pulled back with such speed that they cannot help but collide with devastating force.

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  Anchors, Opposites, Two

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

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  People, Shapes, Way

  Kate Morton (2012). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.39, Allen & Unwin

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• The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself.

  Kate Morton

  Girl, Eye, Mirrors

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