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Kate Morton, born in 1976, is an acclaimed Australian author known for her intricate family histories and emotional storytelling.

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“...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess.”

Children Home

Book:The House at Riverton

Source: The House at Riverton

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

Children Twins Opinions Sisters Blythe

Book:The Distant Hours

Source: The Distant Hours

“... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.”

Children Home Magnet Lure

Book:The House at Riverton: A Novel

Source: The House at Riverton: A Novel

“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.”

Children Said Cold Abandon Careless

Book:The Forgotten Garden

Source: The Forgotten Garden

“She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've always chosen to believe the latter. After all, it's the librarian's one sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.”

Believe Children Book Soul Together Purpose Reader Needed Holes Chosen My Soul Confused Latter Filling Librarian Deep Inside

Author:Kate Morton

“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.”

Children Stories Mother Tales Fairy Frightened Fairy Tale Frightening

Book:The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

“I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .”

Children Said Born Heard Air Shakes Woe Stressful Stressful Times

Book:The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden

Source: The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden

“Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.”

Ifs Children Adults

Book:The Atria Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: A Free Collection of Excerpts from Some of Our Favorite Writers

Source: The Atria Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: A Free Collection of Excerpts from Some of Our Favorite Writers

“Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.”

Children Past Parent Existence Claims Unbelievable Embarrassing Parental

Book:The Secret Keeper: A Novel

Source: The Secret Keeper: A Novel

“It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.”

Thinking Way Heart Children Different Use Love Is Responsibility Wonder Gone Special Please Guilt Burden Grandparent Grandchildren Misuse

Book:The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden

Source: The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden

About the Author

Born: 1976
Known for: Author
Quotes: 251

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