434 Quotes by Kate Morton

You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.

What was real, he knew now, was the soil beneath a man’s feet. The earth, the natural world, from which could be derived every necessity. and on which were preserved the imprints of every man, woman, and child that had ever lived.

Each clock is unique,’ he used to tell me. ‘And just like a person, its face, whether plain or pretty, is but a mask for the intricate mechanism it conceals.

No matter what evil might come one’s way to be loved is to be protected.

I have come to understand that loss leaves a hole in a person and holes like to be filled. It is the natural order.

I simply love writing good stories, that’s my passion.

Oh, but I do enjoy gray skies! They’re so much more complex than blue ones.

No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don’t approximate. Don’t settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.

Down the winding lane and across the meadow broad, to the river they went with their secrets and their sword.