434 Quotes by Kate Morton

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.

---All that matters to me are people and experience. Connections - that's the thing. That flicker of electricity between people, the invisible tie.

There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

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.

Being a parent’s a breeze,” came Alan’s cheerful voice on the wind. “No more difficult than flying a plane with a blindfold on and holes in your wings.

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.

You mustn't wait for someone to rescur you. A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even wth the means, she'll find her couorage wanting. Don't be like that, Eliza. You must find your courage, learn to rescue yourself, never rely on anyone else.

I was an only child. It was lonely.""I was one of four. It was noisy.