434 Quotes by Kate Morton

...if she didn't learn to stop her mind racing on ahead of her she'd end up running into a mountain made of her own imaginings.

Dear Saffy, looking up from behind the typewriter in the way that was habit with her; always just a little bewildered, as if she'd been caught in the middle of a rose petal, dewdrop dream and reality was a slightly dusty surprise.

Zemlja je drevna i ogromna, i ima mnogo toga što još uvek ne shvatamo. Odbijam da prihvatim da su nauka i magija suprotstavljene; obe su validni pokušaji da se dokuči kako funkcioniše naš svet. Lusi Redklif

The satin evening dress Lady Gwendolyn was wearing in the photograph was dark in color and luminous, bias-cut so that it clung lightly to her curves. Dolly had searched high and low in the wardrobes until she finally found it, draped over a hanger among a host of others- imagine her pleasure to discover it was deepest red, surely the most magnificent of all colors.

The event itself played over in her mind, and the role she'd taken in the police investigation, the things she'd told them - worse, the thing she hadn't - made the panic so bad sometimes that she could hardly breathe. No matter where she went at Greenacres - inside the house or out in the garden - she felt trapped by what she'd seen and done. The memories where everywhere, they were inescapable; made worse because the event that caused them was utterly inexplicable.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

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.

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.