434 Quotes by Kate Morton

Cassandra’s grandmother smiled then, only it wasn’t a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.

While I wasn’t certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

It was electric, a spark of cosmic recognition, as if in that moment time’s weave had opened and they’d glimpsed an alternative existence in which they were something more than strangers on a train.

All these people, the stars of lives unfolding quite outside the sphere in which Cassandra’s own life took place.

But it was not so complicated really. Such things rarely are. It was a simple case of stars aligning; those that didn’t being nudged into place.

It’s a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

Sometimes, Edie, a person’s feelings aren’t rational. At least, they don’t seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base.

She had found there were very few genuinely dull people; the trick was to ask them the right questions.

Lack of potatoes left a person’s stomach growling, but absence of beauty hardened the soul.