Nancy

“But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things?”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper