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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...."
Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)
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""She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.""
Kate Morton (The Forgotten Garden)
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""... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.""
Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)
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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."
Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)
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"A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting."
Kate Morton
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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."
Kate Morton
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"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)
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"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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"With a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power."
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"Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flatered by the brief attentions of a handsome man"
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"Which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?"
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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."
Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)
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