Kate Morton Quotations | Page 2

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.

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.

A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.

We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

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.

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it’s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.