Quote

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

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
Knew
Future
Force
People
Weighed
Endings
Photographs
Photograph

More quotes by Kate Morton

Image
In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.
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
Image
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
Image
. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
Kate Morton
Image
It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?
Kate Morton
Image
Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.
Kate Morton
Image
... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
Kate Morton
Image
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
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
A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven
Kate Morton
Image
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
Kate Morton
Image
Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
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
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
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself.
Kate Morton
Image
Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.
Kate Morton
Image
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.
Kate Morton
Image
Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery.
Kate Morton
Image
A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.
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