434 Quotes by Kate Morton

She wanted me to look at her sets, to remember things and places from long ago. As if I hadn’t spent a lifetime pretending to forget

I find the distant past is sharp and clear. They come often lately, those ghosts from the past, and I’m surprised to find I don’t much mind them

…The Valley of Fear. I whispered the thrilling words to myself, then lifted the book to my nose and breathed the ink from its pages. The scent of possibilities

I nod and he disappears, dissolves like watercolour into a dusty streak of light

She could stay at her own place, in her own bed, with her own books and her favourite teacup, without having to negotiate and explain herself.

I don not know where the likeness went. It slipped through the cracks of time and went to where the lost things are.

My father called me Birdie; he said I was his little bird. My real name was beautiful, he said, but it was the name of a grown-up lady, the sort of name that wore long skirts and fin silks, but had not the wings to fly.

The monsters pulled me under again and I heard no more. Day dissolved into night; my boat pushed out once more into stormy seas--

What it is to share one’s life, to really share it, so that very little matters outside the certainty of its walls. Because the world is very noisy, Elodie, and although life is filled with joy and wonder, there’s evil and sorrow and injustice, too.