Quote

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

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
Air
Heard
Times
Born
Children
Woe
Never
Stressful
Shake
Shakes

More quotes by Kate Morton

Image
... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
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
I love the structural part of the writing process.
Kate Morton
Image
Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.
Kate Morton
Image
What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.
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
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.
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
Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
Kate Morton
Image
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
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
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
It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
Kate Morton
Image
Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.
Kate Morton
Image
In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
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
I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
Kate Morton
Image
... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
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
It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.
Kate Morton