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• There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it’s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.

  Kate Morton

  Wall, Reality, Doors

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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

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  When You Love Someone, Love Someone

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

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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.

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  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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• 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.

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  Choices, Survivor, Want

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

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• But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

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  Experts, Virtue, Hindsight

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

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  Grief, Poet, Loved Ones

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.887, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.

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  Men, Attention, Handsome

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.334, 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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• 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!

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  Events, Might, Remember

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

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  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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• I love the structural part of the writing process.

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  Writing, Process, Writing Process

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

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  Deals, Felt

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.358, 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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• Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.

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  Doors, Mets, Wanted

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• ...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

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  Princess, Maids, Fairy Tale

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.495, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

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  Unique, Way, Imagine

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.839, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Thinking, Trying

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

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• 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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  People, Waiting, Stories

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Summer, Stars, Rain

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

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  Tales, Storyteller

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Hands, Use, Might

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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