434 Quotes by Kate Morton

I write what I’d like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

It’s a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past, should exist only in memories glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photography forces us to see people before their future weighed down on them. Before they knew their endings.

We are traveling each towards his sunset.

They were young; time hadn’t yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...

It was an isidious seed planted inside a person’s soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it. It was hope, too, that prevented a person taking counsel from experience.

The only thing one can count on is that no one else can truly be counted on.” Alice.

All her life, Alice had been interested in people. She didn’t always like them, she rarely sought their company for reasons of social fulfillment, but she did find them fascinating. And there was nowhere better for seeing people than in the rabbit warrens of the Underground. All of London passed through those tunnels, a steady flow of humanity in its many weird and wonderful forms, and among them Alice slipped like a ghost.

Lil had always believed that a person’s duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.

The camera is ubiquitous. They all carry one now. Even as I watch, they traipse through the rooms of the house, pointing their devices at this chair or those tiles. 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.