Kate Morton - The House at Riverton (2006)

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"But happiness... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."

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While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

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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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For home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.

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In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.

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It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....

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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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I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe....

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If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.

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She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.

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Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination....

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She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.

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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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