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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

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Kate Morton
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
Author
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Berri
South Australia
Australia
Stories
Writing
Good
Love
Simply
Passion

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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.
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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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Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.
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I love the structural part of the writing process.
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But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
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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.
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In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
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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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. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
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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.
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She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.
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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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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.
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Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.
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... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
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Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
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I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .
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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'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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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.
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