434 Quotes by Kate Morton

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

Time is a strange and powerful beast. It has a habit of making the impossible possible.

Nem sokra becsülném magamat, ha senki sem utálna.

And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost.

But sometimes, when no one is looking, little girls like to do forbidden things.

The canopy of the woods was spread out beneath me and it looked as if autumn had taken a great torch to the trees, burnishing them gold, red, and bronze.

Elodie was a nostalgic person, but she hated the charge. The word was terribly maligned. People used it as a stand-in for sentimentality, when it wasn’t that at all. Sentimentality was mawkish and cloying, where nostalgia was acute and aching. It described yearning of the most profound kind: an awareness that time’s passage could not be stopped and there was no going back to reclaim a moment or a person or do things differently.

Tragedy has been described as 'the conflict between desire and possibility.' Following this definition, is The Forgotten Garden a tragedy? If so, in what way/s?