Kate Morton Quotes

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

Kate Morton
When you love someone you'll do just about anything to keep them.

Kate Morton
Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

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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...

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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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Children don't require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

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

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And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth and the sun. When Cassandra opened her eyes, she realized she was crying. She wasn't sad, though, these were the tears of being found, of having come home after a long time away.

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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.

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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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But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.

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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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People who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

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