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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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“She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.”

Knows Book Different War Cry Favourite Small Parts Favourite Book

Book:The House at Riverton

Source: The House at Riverton

“You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.”

Knows Life Shows Happens Differences Habit Pages Tales Fairy Princess Fairy Tale

Book:The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

“You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it." "I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice.”

Knows Want Feels Said Sometimes Enough Choices Beats Fairs Survivor

Book:The Forgotten Garden

Source: The Forgotten Garden

“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.”

People Knows Enough Certain Felt Type Unhappy

Book:The House at Riverton: A Novel

Source: The House at Riverton: A Novel

“For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.”

Knows Way Said Light Secret Known Reader Findings Letters Sooner Or Later

Book:The Distant Hours: A Novel

Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel

“It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.”

Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel

“Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.”

People Knows Unhappy

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

“Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.”

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Author:Kate Morton

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Born: 1976
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Quotes: 251

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