Kate Morton Quotes
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“Im good with words, but not the spoken kind; Ive often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.”
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“We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.”
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Those who live in memories are never really dead.
— Kate Morton
“Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised ...”
— Kate Morton
They say everyone needs something to love.
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The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.
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She was the sort of person who needed to be kept happy, he realized. Not as a matter of selfish expectation, but as a simple fact of design; like a piano or a harp, she'd been made to function best at a certain tuning.
— Kate Morton
— Kate Morton
I am not a storyteller ... not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
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I want to know how it feels to be altered by life
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Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.
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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.
— Kate Morton
— Kate Morton
It is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of a revelation.
— Kate Morton
— Kate Morton
— Kate Morton
For the perfect gentleman was out there somewhere, waiting for her. He would be nothing like Father, he would be an artist, with an artist's sense of beauty and possibility, who didn't care two whits about bricks and bugs. Who was open and easy to read, whose passions and dreams brought light to his eyes. And he would love her, and only her.
— Kate Morton
-A noise, and the past was chased away, dispersed into the shadows like smoke by the brighter, louder present.
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The Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented.
— Kate Morton
It's a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past, should exist only in memories glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photography forces us to see people before their future weighed down on them. Before they knew their endings.
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“Odd snatches of memory, more like dreams.”
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“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.”
— Kate Morton
— Kate Morton
You will know your job is done well when it goes unnoticed, that you have succeeded when you are unnoticed.
— Kate Morton
It had been instant, just as she'd known real love would be. She and Shirley had stepped off the bus five Saturdays ago to find Billy and his friends smoking cigarettes on the dance-hall steps. Their eyes had met, and Laurel had thanked God she'd decided a weekend's pay was fair exchange for a new pair of nylons.
— Kate Morton
I blame what happened next on the door. The one right across the hall from me, a mere three feet away. I love doors. All of them, without exception. Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open. All the same, if that door hadn't been so old and decorative, so decidedly closed, if a thread of light hadn't positioned itself with such wretched temptation across its middle, highlighting the keyhole and its intriguing key, perhaps I might have stood a chance; remained twiddling my thumbs until Percy came to collect me. But it was and I didn't; I maintain that I simply couldn't. Sometimes, you can tell just by looking at a door there's something interesting behind it.
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“Love makes people do cruel things”
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Was embarrassed; she wished only to melt into the ground. To dissolve
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“Babies in prams at the park.”
— Kate Morton
— Kate Morton
“How bright such memories seem when the life they catalogue is threatened! Afterwards,”
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