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.

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

Kate Morton
- Life
- Enough
- Cruel
Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

Kate Morton
- People
- Future
- Force

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
- Life
- Book
- Air
Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

Kate Morton
- Cancer
- Rejection
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
Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

Kate Morton
- Thing
- Expectations
- Hopes
She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

Kate Morton
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

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
- Child
- Abandon