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In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
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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.
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I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.
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Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
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A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.
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Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery...
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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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For home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
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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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My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.
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Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.
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When you love someone you'll do just about anything to keep them.
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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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1976
(age 48)
Bio:
Kate Morton is an international bestselling Australian author. Morton has sold more than 10 million books in 42 countries, making her one of Australia's "biggest publishing exports".
Known for:
The Lake House (2015)
The Forgotten Garden (2008)
The Secret Keeper (2012)
The House at Riverton (2006)
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