The Secret Keeper

by Kate Morton

Laurel knew quite a bit about keeping secrets. She also knew that was where the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots.

Fairness might be the great sticking point for all siblings, but it was an obsession for those in the middle.

“Never discount the possibility of turning up an answer none of the current theories predicts.”

there are weak and there are powerful people in our society, and that goodness is not a factor in determining into which camp one falls.”

the belief system acquired in childhood is never fully escaped; it may submerge itself for a while, but it always returns in times of need to lay claim to the soul it shaped.

Sometimes the distance of years—all that was contained within its concertina folds—was a physical ache.