434 Quotes by Kate Morton

In each man’s heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

How was a boy who’d tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?

Boredom, as her mother had always told them, was a state to be pitied, the province of the witless.

I don’t think I was planned exactly.” “I should say not,” he agreed. “But you were loved, which is arguably more important.

I wanted you to see what a balm love is. What it is to share one’s life, to really share it, so that very little matters outside the certainty of its walls. Because the world is very noisy, Elodie, and although life is filled with joy and wonder, there’s evil and sorrow and injustice, too.

Guilty characters might escape prosecution, but they never escaped justice.

A brisk wind wove through the bushes, twirling the leaves so that their pale undersides fluttered towards the sun. Like children thrust suddenly into the spotlight, flitting between nerves and self-importance.

Although it was almost midnight, London wasn’t dark. Cities like London never were, she suspected, not anymore. The modern world had killed nighttime.

She doesn’t know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.