quotes by Kate Morton

"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...."
— Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)

""She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.""
— Kate Morton (The Forgotten Garden)

""... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.""
— Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)

"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."
— Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)

"A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting."
— Kate Morton

"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."
— Kate Morton

"It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different."
"Not a mystery."
Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."
Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing."
— Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)

"No one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it""
— Kate Morton

"With a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power."
— Kate Morton

"Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flatered by the brief attentions of a handsome man"
— Kate Morton

"Which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?"
— Kate Morton

"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."
— Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)