434 Quotes by Kate Morton

I sometimes feel my entire life is a series of accidents and chances- not that I am complaining. One can be very happy having relinquished all expectation of control.

Nature is cruel. Isn’t that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they’re still beautiful. Now they’ll stay that way.

There will come a time, I know, when women will have the same opportunities afforded men. How can it not come to pass when women are the smarter and more numerous?

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn’t realise it at the time.

I was pulled back together by the arrival of my first visitor. And as my name, my life, my history was buried, I who had once dreamed of captured light found that I had become captured light itself.

For the perfect gentleman was out there somewhere, waiting for her. He would be nothing like Father, he would be an artist, with an artist’s sense of beauty and possibility, who didn’t care two whits about bricks and bugs. Who was open and easy to read, whose passions and dreams brought light to his eyes. And he would love her, and only her.

Dragonflies didn’t imagine they could sense the future; they just flew about, enjoying the sun on their wings.

One of the things I have come to know most surely in my work is that the belief system acquired in childhood is never fully escaped; it may submerge itself for a while, but it always returns in times of need to lay claim to the soul it shaped.

She’s one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.