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I love the structural part of the writing process.

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Kate Morton
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
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Berri
South Australia
Australia
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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.
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A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven
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Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
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But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while remind folks it exists.
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Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.
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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.
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Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
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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.
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She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.
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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
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I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
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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.
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Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.
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Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.
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I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.
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It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?
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Those who live in memories are never really dead. The House At Riverton
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Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.
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A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.
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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.
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