434 Quotes by Kate Morton

Parents and children. The simplest relationship in the world and yet the most complex. One generation passes to the next a suitcase filled with jumbled jigsaw pieces from countless puzzles collected over time and says, ‘See what you can make out of these.

It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it, the way we throw people away?

I should think less of myself if no one disliked me.

She’d opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She’d wondered what it must feel like to escape the rigid boundaries of words and speak instead with such a fluid language.

Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person’s soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.

Doors lead to things and I’ve never met one I haven’t wanted to open.

Experiencing the world at one remove, through the windows of their phones, making images for later so that they do not need to bother seeing or feeling things now.

She was the breeze on a summer’s day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.

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