Top 100 Kate Morton Quotes
#1. For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.
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#2. I feel like a von Trapp," Ruby said between puffs, "But fatter, older and with absolutely no energy for singing.
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#4. The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned.
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#5. Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.
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#6. I can't imagine facing the end of the day without a story to drop into on my way towards sleep.
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#8. The house, she'd explained to them many times, had spoken to her; she'd listened, and it turned out they'd understood one another very well indeed. Greenacres was an imperious old lady, a little worn, to be sure, cranky in her own way-but who wouldn't be?
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#9. Romance makes people forget themselves, do silly things
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#10. After so many months of hoping, long spells of illness and worry and confinement, I hold in my arms my darling child. Everything else fades away. She is perfect.
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#11. A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.
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#12. This child lent a solidity to him and Lil. They were a family now, an unbreakable unit of three.
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#13. Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
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#14. 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.
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#15. An expression of infinite wisdom, as if, in those first days of life, the small person retained the knowledge of a lifetime just passed.
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#16. People who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
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#17. She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape the rigid boundaries of words and speak instead with such a fluid language.
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#18. Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].
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#19. Life was like that, doors of possibility constantly opening and closing as one blindly made one's way through.
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#20. to desire fewer possessions and to possess greater love.
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#21. That was were the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots.
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#22. Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.
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#23. There was a pessimism in his soul, a darkness in his outlook, that always left her somehow more aware of hard edges than she had been before.
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#24. I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.
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#25. For the time was almost upon him, he could
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#26. She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.
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#27. That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.
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#28. People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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#30. She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.
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#31. It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different."
"Not a mystery."
Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."
Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.
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#32. we'd meet at Lyons Corner House," she whispered, hurrying
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#33. 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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#34. It was safe to say that neither had ever known the other sort of love, the sort with fireworks and racing hearts and physical desires.
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#36. This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade.
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#37. Sometimes 'feelings' aren't as airy-fairy as they seem. Sometimes they're just the product of observations we haven't realized we've been making.
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#38. Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.
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#39. She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.
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#40. There were moments in which a person reached a crossroads, when something happened, out of the blue, to change the course of life's events.
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#41. It is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of a revelation.
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#42. Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering through pages as you promise yourself just one more chapter; they shouldn't put you to sleep as you tackle a paragraph for the fifth time.
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#43. All very well for a dull sort of girl to hitch her wheel to a man's wagon, but consider yourself warned, men enjoy a bit of sport, and they all like to catch the brightest prize, but once they do? That's when the fun and games end. His games, her fun.
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#44. 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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#45. But the night times have a way of encouraging extremes
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#46. To be faced with danger and find oneself fearless was thrilling.
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#47. But it was not so complicated really. Such things rarely are. It was a simple case of stars aligning; those that didn't being nudged into place.
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#48. Love is like that: insistent, sure, persuasive. It silences easily all whispers of misgiving.
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#49. People change as they get older ... grow wiser, make better decisions ... i am very old,Laurel. Anyone who lives as long as I have can't help but collect regrets along the way ... things they did in the past ... things they wish they'd done differently.
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#50. But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.
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#51. You mustn't wait for someone to rescue you, ... A girl expecting rescue never learns to rescue herself. Even with the means, she'll find her courage wanting.
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#52. Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there were worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had an opinion.
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#54. Then lifted the book to my nose and breathed the ink in from its pages. The scent of possibilities.
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#55. Adults weren't supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
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#56. Dragonflies didn't imagine they could sense the future; they just flew about, enjoying the sun on their wings.
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#57. 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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#58. The list is long and its keeper bitter.
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#59. Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.
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#60. 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 ...
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#61. Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.
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#62. There was a lid for each pot, she'd told me often and soberly, and she thanked God she'd found her lid in my grandfather.
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#63. Which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?
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#64. It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
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#65. made from a lovely piece of Liberty fabric ordered years ago, not because Saffy had a project in mind, but because it was simply too beautiful not to possess.
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#66. ...it seemed hope's glimmer always hovered in the distance, no matter how long one journeyed towards it without success.
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#67. Murder in and of itself was not engaging; it was the drive to kill, the human factor, the fervors and furies motivating the dreadful act that rendered it compelling. Alice
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#68. When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.
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#69. For home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
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#70. Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
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#71. I should think less of myself if no one disliked me.
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#72. Vivien also knew that the affair was one-sided and that her feelings were not something she would ever share with him.
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#73. And Juniper had understood, somehow, that in Tom she'd found the person who could balance her, and that more than anything, to fall in love was to be caught, to be saved ...
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#74. She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.
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#75. Time is the master of perspective. A dispassionate master, breathtakingly efficient.
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#76. The cage door opened and the cuckoo bird fell, fell, fell, until finally her stunted wings opened, and she found that she could fly.
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#77. 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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#78. The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
-The Crone's Eyes
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#79. But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.
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#80. I am not a storyteller ... not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
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#81. I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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#82. How ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.
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#83. It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark, every unexplained melancholy, took the shadowy form of the same unanswered question, something that had been there since she was sixteen years old - her mother's unspoken secret.
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#84. Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.
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#85. She found a seat in the corner and sat down, opening the cover and breathing in the glorious dusty scent of papery possibility.
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#86. It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness.
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#87. 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.
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#88. You've said before, Ms. Nicolson, that your mother was a strong woman. She lived through the war,
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#89. There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.
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#90. 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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#91. It's not easy, getting old, feeling one's relevance slip away.
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#92. They say everyone needs something to love.
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#93. One of the things I have come to know most surely in my work is that the belief system acquired in childhood is never fully escaped; it may submerge itself for a while, but it always returns in times of need to lay claim to the soul it shaped.
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#94. Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?
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#95. The wedding photographs were stained with black umbrellas.
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#96. Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
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#97. The woman in whose body I had grown, in whose house I'd been raised was, in some vital ways, a stranger to me. I'd gone thirty years without ascribing her any more dimension than the paper dollies I'd played with as a girl with the pasted on smiles and the folding tab dresses.
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#98. He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
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#99. As an only child, Cassandra found the well-worn paths of sibling interaction fascinating and horrifying in equal parts.
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