Kate Morton Quotes - Page 3

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• You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it." "I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice.

  Kate Morton

  Choices, Survivor, Want

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base

  Kate Morton

  Lying, Feelings, Littles

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Distant Hours”, p.303, Pan Macmillan

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• when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.

  Kate Morton

  When You Love Someone, Love Someone

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That no matter how far she walked, how carefully she searched, how much she wanted to find the person she was looking for, she was alone" - The Forgotten Garden

  Kate Morton

  Night, Garden, Waiting

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• She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

  Kate Morton

  Dream, Memories, Night

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.706, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Taken, Character

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

  Kate Morton

  Sleep, Monsters, Reason

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Distant Hours”, p.438, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Kate Morton

  Loneliness, Self, Way

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton

  Kate Morton

  Memories, House

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• Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

  Kate Morton

  People, Shapes, Way

  Kate Morton (2012). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.39, Allen & Unwin

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• Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.

  Kate Morton

  Thinking, Smell, Air

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• So much in life came down to timing.

  Kate Morton

  Timing

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.

  Kate Morton

  Thinking, Trying

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  Kate Morton

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

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  Real, Blood, Names

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

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  Book, Given, Given Up

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• She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

  Kate Morton

  Deals, Felt

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Fun, Keeping Secrets, Knowing

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Girl, Eye, Mirrors

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• I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.

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  Clever, Mean, Independent

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

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  Despair, Action, Oneself

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Expectations, One Thing

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• Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

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  Strong, Remember, Enough

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

  Kate Morton

  Events, Might, Remember

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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