434 Quotes by Kate Morton

There were so many aspects of Eleanor her daughters didn’t know. She took them out sometimes, those hidden traits, and turned them over, inspecting and admiring from all sides, as if they were precious seed pearls. And then she wrapped them up again safely and tucked them away. She would never reveal them again because then she’d have to explain why she’d changed.

If you don’t stop apologizing, you’re going to convince me you’ve done something wrong.

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested – intrigued even – by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

He was aware as he walked of belonging; in an essential way he knew himself to be of the earth, and with each footstep he drew further solidity from it. Belonging. The word lodged in his mind, and when he resumed his travels that afternoon he found his feet moving to the rhythm of its syllables.

People are fascinating, aren’t they, the closer you get to knowing what makes them tick?

A person never forgets the landscape of their childhood’.

There was no such thing as the right time, he explained. Time was an idea: it had no end and no beginning; it could not be seen or heard or smelled. It could be measured, sure enough, but no words had been found to explain precisely what is was. As to the “right” time, it was simply a matter of agreeing to agree.

Full of life and light; blissfully unaware of all the future had in store.

Why did Hannah marry Teddy? Not because she loved him, but because she was prepared to love him.