Quote

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

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
Reluctance
Procrastination
Quick
Begin
Befriend

More quotes by 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
Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.
Kate Morton
Image
Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base
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 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
But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while remind folks it exists.
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
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
Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.
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
Image
... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
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
Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.
Kate Morton
Image
She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.
Kate Morton
Image
You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.
Kate Morton
Image
But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
Kate Morton
Image
Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493
Kate Morton
Image
They say everyone needs something to love.
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
Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
Kate Morton