Kate Morton Quotes
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We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.
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Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.
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Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?
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She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.
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She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.
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I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .
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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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A true friend is a light in the dark.
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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.
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They say everyone needs something to love.
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Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.
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What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.
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It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?
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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.
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You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.
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Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.
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When you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.