Quote

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.

Kate Morton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Kate Morton
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Berri
South Australia
Australia
Lives
Twenty
Able
Twenties
Look
Beyond
Looks
Inside
Years
Lines
People
Year
Face
Faces

More quotes by Kate Morton

Image
The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear.
Kate Morton
Image
Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
Kate Morton
Image
Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
Kate Morton
Image
I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .
Kate Morton
Image
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.
Kate Morton
Image
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.
Kate Morton
Image
I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.
Kate Morton
Image
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.
Kate Morton
Image
She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.
Kate Morton
Image
Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?
Kate Morton
Image
What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.
Kate Morton
Image
. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
Kate Morton
Image
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
Image
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
Kate Morton
Image
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
Image
Those who live in memories are never really dead. The House At Riverton
Kate Morton
Image
Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.
Kate Morton
Image
But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
Kate Morton
Image
You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.
Kate Morton
Image
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.
Kate Morton