434 Quotes by Kate Morton

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.

Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery ...

... time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised ...

Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

Life was like that, doors of possibility constantly opening and closing as one blindly made one’s way through.

I’m just titivating our dinner.

Sometimes ‘feelings’ aren’t as airy-fairy as they seem. Sometimes they’re just the product of observations we haven’t realized we’ve been making.