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You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

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Kate Morton
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
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South Australia
Australia
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She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.
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Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.
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Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
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That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.
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... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
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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.
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Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.
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... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
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She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.
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You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor. I don't want to survive it. I know that, too, Nell had said. And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base
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Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?
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Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.
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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
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She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.
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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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