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Kate Morton Quotes | Quotes said by Kate Morton

  • Kate Morton Quote #1

    Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].


  • Kate Morton Quote #2

    But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

  • Kate Morton Quote #3

    Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?

  • Kate Morton Quote #4

    Csak az firtatja a jövot, aki a jelenben boldogtalan.

  • Kate Morton Quote #5

    És meséltem neked az emlékeimrol. Nem mindenrol. Célt tuztem ki magamnak, és nem akarlak a múltam meséivel untatni. Inkább arról a különös érzésrol meséltem, hogy az emlékek valóságosabbá váltak számomra, mint az életem. Arról, hogy minden figyelmeztetés nélkül egyszerre ott vagyok, és csalódás, amikor kinyitom a szemem, és 1999-ben találom magam; ahogy az ido szövete változik, és én otthonosabban érzem magam a múltban, ebben a furcsa és fakó tapasztalatban pedig, amit közmegegyezéssel jelennek nevezünk, pusztán látogatónak.

  • Kate Morton Quote #6

    Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

  • Kate Morton Quote #7

    His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

  • Kate Morton Quote #8

    Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.

  • Kate Morton Quote #9

    I don’t have many friends, not the living, breathing sort at any rate. And I don’t mean that in a sad and lonely way; I’m just not the type of person who accumulates friends or enjoys crowds. I’m good with words, but not spoken kind; I’ve often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper. And I suppose, in a sense, that’s what I do, for I’ve hundreds of the other sort, the friends contained within bindings, pages after glorious pages of ink, stories that unfold the same way every time but never lose their joy, that take me by the hand and lead me through doorways into worlds of great terror and rapturous delight. Exciting, worthy, reliable companions - full of wise counsel, some of them - but sadly ill-equipped to offer the use of a spare bedroom for a month or two.

  • Kate Morton Quote #10

    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.

  • Kate Morton Quote #11

    It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....

  • Kate Morton Quote #12

    it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.

  • Kate Morton Quote #13

    It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.

  • Kate Morton Quote #14

    It'll be a change, says Marcus. Something different.
    Not a mystery.
    Marcus laughs. No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history.
    Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.

  • Kate Morton Quote #15

    It's a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past, should exist only in memories glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photography forces us to see people before their future weighed down on them. Before they knew their endings.

  • Kate Morton Quote #16

    La vida es demasiado breve para ser moderado.

  • Kate Morton Quote #17

    Life'd be a lot easier if it were like a fairy tale, said Cassandra, if people belonged to stock character types.
    Oh, but people do, they only think they don't. Even the person who insists such things don't exist is a cliché: the dreary pedant who insists on his own uniqueness!

  • Kate Morton Quote #18

    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 Quote #19

    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 Quote #20

    No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.

  • Kate Morton Quote #21

    Organizas tu vida con lo que tienes, no con lo que te falta.

  • Kate Morton Quote #22

    Poisons are more my thing

  • Kate Morton Quote #23

    She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

  • Kate Morton Quote #24

    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 Quote #25

    Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  • Kate Morton Quote #26

    That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.

  • Kate Morton Quote #27

    That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

  • Kate Morton Quote #28

    The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft countenance. In others, however, it leads to the formation of a tiny ice flint in their heart. Ice that, though at times concealed, never properly melts.

    Rose, though she would have liked to be one of the former, knew herself deep down to be one of the latter.

  • Kate Morton Quote #29

    The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

  • Kate Morton Quote #30

    Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in her ear. Transferred the secret he and her mother had kept for seventeen years. Waited for the flicker of recognition, the minute shift in expression as she registered what he was telling her. Watched as the bottom fell out of her world and the person she had been vanished in an instant.

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