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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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“I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.”

Way Real Spirit Names Sound Blood Leaving Real Life Fades Vague Erase Intrigued Fade Away Contemptuous

Book:The House at Riverton: A Novel

Source: The House at Riverton: A Novel

“Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.”

People Way Shapes

Book:The Forgotten Garden

Source: The Forgotten Garden

“It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.”

Way Self Might Loses Saws Loneliness Chosen Reserves Preservation Self Preservation

Book:The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

“Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?”

People Way Should Mind Long Ends Past Faces Voice Ability Gone Silent Rings Ships Grandmother Passages Toss Departed Docks

Book:The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

“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”

Way Littles Persons Sometimes Feelings Seems Lying Deeper Surface Rational

Book:The Distant Hours

Source: The Distant Hours

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

Way Imagine Unique

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

“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

“A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.”

Way Listening Understood

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

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

People Way Character Age Brands Rising Scar Funny Things

Book:The Distant Hours: A Novel

Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel

“No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.”

People Thinking Way Feels Writing Two Challenges Combination Settling Truthful Merry Being Truthful

Book:The Distant Hours: A Novel

Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel

“It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?”

People Way Terrible Terrible Things

Author:Kate Morton

“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

“I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.”

Way Writing Might

Author:Kate Morton

About the Author

Born: 1976
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Quotes: 251

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