Quote

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

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
Throw
Terrible
Away
Thing
Way
People

More quotes by Kate Morton

Image
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
Kate Morton
Image
I love the structural part of the writing process.
Kate Morton
Image
You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.
Kate Morton
Image
Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
Kate Morton
Image
What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.
Kate Morton
Image
Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.
Kate Morton
Image
Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.
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
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
Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.
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 twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.
Kate Morton
Image
While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.
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
Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.
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
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.
Kate Morton
Image
Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.
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