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Kate Morton Inspirational Quotes (66)

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A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven
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Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.
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Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
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I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.
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She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.
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They say everyone needs something to love.
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The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.
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But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
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Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.
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Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?
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Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.
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The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear.
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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.
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I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
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I love the structural part of the writing process.
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Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
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You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.
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She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've always chosen to believe the latter. After all, it's the librarian's one sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.
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What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.
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. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
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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.
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Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.
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