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
Heard
Times
Born
Children
Woe
Never
Stressful
Shake
Shakes
Air

More quotes by 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
Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.
Kate Morton
Image
They say everyone needs something to love.
Kate Morton
Image
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.
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
She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.
Kate Morton
Image
And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth and the sun. When Cassandra opened her eyes, she realized she was crying. She wasn't sad, though, these were the tears of being found, of having come home after a long time away.
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
. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
Kate Morton
Image
Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
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
But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while remind folks it exists.
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
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
But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
Kate Morton
Image
Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.
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
It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?
Kate Morton
Image
The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That no matter how far she walked, how carefully she searched, how much she wanted to find the person she was looking for, she was alone - The Forgotten Garden
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