Quotessence
Home / Authors / Kate Morton
Kate Morton

Kate Morton Quotes

Author

Filter quotes by topic

AllPeopleWayBookGardenChildrenHomePersonsEliza MakepeaceMightFlowersKnowsNatures BeautyCassandra RyanIfsMemoriesThinkingWritingLightMomentsMystery Woman

Famous Kate Morton Quotes

“Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.”

ThinkingLongWarSeemsPastEasyMemoriesSimpleSpaceClearPerspectiveInfiniteForgottenPatternsVersionsWinnerDistinctionFlatsLoserLiquidOutlinesLinearTurning PointsSlipperyBefore And AfterWinner And Loser
Book:The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden
Create image

“Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.”

ThinkingLongFoundFeltNaturalDoorsAirStandingEmbraceRoundsWarmSmellBreatheFamiliarSunlightShelvesInkFlewSpineBeamBindingTranquilReassuringBookshopsPerplexity
Book:The Distant Hours: A Novel
Create image

“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.”

ThinkingWayHeartChildrenDifferentUseLove IsResponsibilityWonderGoneSpecialPleaseGuiltBurdenGrandparentGrandchildrenMisuse
Book:The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden
Create image

“True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.”

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