The Lake House Quotes

“Life was like that, doors of possibility constantly opening and closing as one blindly made one’s way through.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“Sometimes 'feelings' aren't as airy-fairy as they seem. Sometimes they're just the product of observations we haven't realized we've been making.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“A person never forgets the landscape of their childhood'.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“She had found there were very few genuinely dull people; the trick was to ask them the right questions.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“We are all victims of our human experience,” Alice continued, “apt to view the present through the lens of our own past.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“May your past be a pleasant memory, Your future filled with delight and mystery, Your now a glorious moment, That fills your life with deep contentment.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“Dragonflies didn't imagine they could sense the future; they just flew about, enjoying the sun on their wings.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“He was far more comfortable reading about the lives and ideas of others than describing his own.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“People are my home, the ones I love.” Eleanor”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“Boredom, as her mother had always told them, was a state to be pitied, the province of the witless.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“Her father had once said that the poor might suffer poverty, but the rich had to contend with uselessness, and there was nothing like idleness to eat away at a person’s soul.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“It was electric, a spark of cosmic recognition, as if in that moment time’s weave had opened and they’d glimpsed an alternative existence in which they were something more than strangers on a train.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“Sunlight was everywhere, glittering gold off the bright green leaves of the garden. A blackcap, concealed within the foliage of a nearby willow, sang a sweet fanfare and a pair of mallards fought over a particularly juicy snail. The orchestra was rehearsing a dance number and music skimmed across the surface of the lake. How lucky they were to get a day like this one! After weeks of agonizing, of their studying the dawn, of consulting Those Who Ought to Know, the sun had risen, burning off any lingering cloud, just as it should on Midsummer's Eve. The evening would be warm, the breeze light, the party as bewitching as ever.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“A tangle of star jasmine spilled across the path and Alice knelt to pluck a sprig, holding it beneath her nose and breathing in the scent of captured sunshine. On a whim, she unlaced her shoes. A delicate iron chair stood in a nook beside the camellia, and she sat, slipping her feet free and peeling off her socks, wiggling her toes in the surprise of the balmy air. A late butterfly hovered at a nearby rosebush, and Alice thought, as always, of her father.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“They'd eaten every meal outdoors, hard-boiled eggs and cheese from a picnic basket, and drunk wine under the lilac tree in the walled garden. They'd disappeared inside the woods, and stolen apples from the farm next door, and floated down the stream in her little boat as one silken hour spun itself into the next. On a clear, still night, they'd dug the old bicycles out of the shed and cycled together along the dusty lane, racing, laughing, breathing in salt from the warm air as moonlight made the stones, still hot from the day, shine lustrous white.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“Sadie scanned the wild tangle of greenery surrounding them. Ferns were striving towards the light, spiraled stems uncoiling into fronds. The sweet scent of honeysuckle mingled with the earthiness of recent rain. Summer rain. She'd always loved that smell, even more so when Bertie told her it was caused by a type of bacteria. It proved that good things could come from bad if the right conditions were applied. Sadie had a vested interest in believing that was true.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“no matter how hard a person ran, no matter how fresh the start they gave themselves, the past had a way of reaching across the years to catch them.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“I dislike the word closure; the idea of a finite ending is all well and good in fiction, but a rather infantile expectation in this vast world of ours.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“We are all victims of our human experience,” Alice continued, “apt to view the present through the lens of our own past.” Sadie”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“You always presume there's time ahead, until one day you realize there isn't.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“The only thing one can count on is that no one else can truly be counted on.” Alice”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“Those afternoons in the library, breathing the stale sun-warmed dust of a thousand stories (accented by the collective mildew of a hundred years of rising damp), had been enchanted. Two decades ago now, and yet here, on the No. 168 bus towards Hampstead Heath, Peter was beset with an almost bodily sense of being back there. His lips twitched with the memory of being nine years old and lanky as a foal. His mood lifted as he remembered how large, how filled with possibilities, and yet, at once, how safe and navigable the world had seemed when he was shut within those four walls .”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“It wasn't so much the discovery of a single clue, as the coming together of many small details. That moment when the sun shifts by a degree and a spider's web, previously concealed, begins to shine like fine-spun silver. Because suddenly Sadie could see how it all connected and she knew what had happened that night.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“She wanted you to move forward without regrets, not to deny the past entirely.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“---All that matters to me are people and experience. Connections - that's the thing. That flicker of electricity between people, the invisible tie.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“Love keeps no record of wrongs.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“the sun seeming to hesitate in the process of setting, as if it couldn’t bear to end the day. It was teetering on the horizon, throwing ribbons of pink and mauve across the sky like life ropes, and the air was sweet with jasmine.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“to desire fewer possessions and to possess greater love.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“Those afternoons in the library, breathing the stale sun-warmed dust of a thousand stories (accented by the collective mildew of a hundred years of rising damp), had been enchanted.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“Guilty characters might escape prosecution, but they never escaped justice.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House