Distant Hours Kate Morton Quotes

#1. Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.
To the latecomers are left the bones.

Junot Diaz

#2. That's the Teacher Gene at work, giving its bearer an extra sense. It's a little frightening. Maybe that's how people decide to become teachers. They have that extra sense, and once they have it, and know that they have it, they don't have any choice except to become a teacher.

Gary D. Schmidt

#3. I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through.

Hank Stuever

#4. A day is a pocket of possibility and it's always there, waiting for your willing hand.

Ann Voskamp

#5. A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.

Kate Morton

#6. Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Orson Welles

#7. It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power
the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns
should consent to carry out the will of these weak individuals ...

Leo Tolstoy

#8. A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

Dennis Miller

#9. Those who are made can be unmade.

Hilary Mantel

#10. Ideas are nothing, doing is everything

Ji Lee

#11. These weren't just any walls, these were the stones of Milderhurst Castle, beneath whose skin the distant hours were whispering, watching.

Kate Morton

#12. My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.

David Foster Wallace

#13. If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.

Ben Goldacre

#14. But the moon doesn't say what it knows.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#15. Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Lemony Snicket

#16. I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

Dominic Monaghan