434 Quotes by Kate Morton

We do not always have a choice in where and how and whom, and love gives us the courage to withstand that which we never thought we could.

She felt like a fictional character who’d escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free...

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren’t.

There was nowhere farther from home than the battlefield, and no more wretched homesickness than that of the soldier facing death.

Mother didn’t understand that children aren’t frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

Place is a doorway through which one steps across time.

Ah, well. Life’s too short for moderation, wouldn’t you say?

Sadie scanned the wild tangle of greenery surrounding them. Ferns were striving towards the light, spiraled stems uncoiling into fronds. The sweet scent of honeysuckle mingled with the earthiness of recent rain. Summer rain. She’d always loved that smell, even more so when Bertie told her it was caused by a type of bacteria. It proved that good things could come from bad if the right conditions were applied. Sadie had a vested interest in believing that was true.

Hope’s one thing, expectation’s quite another.