434 Quotes by Kate Morton

We are all victims of our human experience,” Alice continued, “apt to view the present through the lens of our own past.

There’s a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you’ve closed the book.

There was a strong but not unpleasant smell- moist earth, decomposing leaf matter, new flowers beginning to catch the day’s sun- and great fat bumblebees were busy already collecting pollen from a profusion of small pink and white blooms. Blackberries: Sadie surprised herself by dredging up the knowledge. They were blackberry flowers, and in a few months’ time the bushes would be heavy with fruit.

People are my home, the ones I love.” Eleanor.

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn’t hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

My mother was a survivor; she’s a survivor still. If I’ve inherited half her courage, I can count myself a very lucky woman.

To be inside, with the hope of soon being warm and dry, while rain fell outside, was a splendid, simple joy. Flames.

Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren’t supposed to tell it.