Kate Morton Quotes

Australia, Writer
July 19, 1976

Kate Morton (born 1976) is an international bestselling Australian author. Morton has sold more than 10 million books in 42 countries, making her one of Australia's "biggest publishing exports". The award-winning author has written five novels: The House at Riverton (The Shifting Fog), The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours,The Secret Keeper, and The Lake House, which was published in October 2015.

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.

Kate Morton
- People
- Lines
- Beyond
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.

Kate Morton
- Times
- Cry
- Changing

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
- Power
- Profound
- Belied
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
- Way
- Looking
She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

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

Kate Morton
- Cancer
- Rejection
It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Kate Morton
- People
- Way
- Throw
Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

Kate Morton
- People
- Future
- Force

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

Kate Morton
- Thing
- Expectations
- Hopes