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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

“Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“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.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“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

“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.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“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.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape the rigid boundaries of words and speak instead with such a fluid language.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“. . . happiness grows at our own firesides, . . . . It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“Those who live in memories are never really dead.”
― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

“Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake