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1. "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." ~ Kate Morton

2. "Poisons are more my thing" ~ Kate Morton

3. "There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliable; with nothing to anchor them, there is nothing to stop them drifting in opposite directions. If it is string that binds, it will eventually snap and the points will separate; if elastic, they will continue to part, further and further, until the strain reaches its limit and they are pulled back with such speed that they cannot help but collide with devastating force." ~ Kate Morton

4. "I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell." ~ Kate Morton

5. "She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside." ~ Kate Morton

6. "Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man." ~ Kate Morton

7. "Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies." ~ Kate Morton

8. "The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear." ~ Kate Morton

9. "Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment." ~ Kate Morton

10. "To be faced with danger and find oneself fearless was thrilling." ~ Kate Morton

11. "Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open." ~ Kate Morton

12. "The woman in whose body I had grown, in whose house I'd been raised was, in some vital ways, a stranger to me. I'd gone thirty years without ascribing her any more dimension than the paper dollies I'd played with as a girl with the pasted on smiles and the folding tab dresses." ~ Kate Morton

13. "And finally it seemed autumn had realized it was September. The last lingering days of summer had been pushed off stage and in the hidden garden long shadows stretched towards winter. The ground was littered with spent leaves, orange and pale green, and chestnuts on spiky coats sat proudly on the fingertips of cold branches." ~ Kate Morton

14. "People marveled at her ability to build characters from the inside out, to submerge herself and disappear beneath the skin of another person, but there was no trick to it; she merely bothered to learn the character's secrets. Laurel knew quite a bit about keeping secrets. She also knew that was where the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots." ~ Kate Morton

15. "Die Fotografie ist eine grausame Kunst. Sie zerrt eingefangene Momente in die Zukunft, Momente, die in der Vergangenheit haetten verpuffen sollen. Fotos zwingen uns, Menschen zu sehen, bevor sie ihr eigenes Ende kennen." ~ Kate Morton

16. "Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer." ~ Kate Morton

17. "As an only child, Cassandra found the well-worn paths of sibling interaction fascinating and horrifying in equal parts." ~ Kate Morton

18. "All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again." ~ Kate Morton

19. "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." ~ Kate Morton

20. "You mustn't wait for someone to rescue you, . . . . A girl expecting rescue never learns to rescue herself. Even with the means, she'll find her courage wanting." ~ Kate Morton

21. "... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances." ~ Kate Morton

22. "A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't." ~ Kate Morton

23. "She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free..." ~ Kate Morton

24. "Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493" ~ Kate Morton

25. "Creatures that grow up in the wilderness turn out wild." ~ Kate Morton

26. "She'd filled twelve notebooks and still she hadn't stopped. Indeed, the more she wrote, the louder the stories seemed to grow, swirling in her mind, pressing against her head, anxious for release. She didn't know whether they were any good and in truth she didn't care. They were hers, and writing made them real somehow." ~ Kate Morton

27. "To tell the truth, she didn't want to; she liked the constancy of preoccupation." ~ Kate Morton

28. "Love, Laurel, that's the only reason to get married. For love." ~ Kate Morton

29. "Romance makes people forget themselves, do silly things" ~ Kate Morton

30. "Hannah didn't see Robbie again for weeks after that. She thought he'd forgotten his promise to lend her his book of poetry. It was just like him, she suspected, to charm his way into a dinner invitation, make empty promises, then vanish without honoring them. She was not offended, merely disappointed in herself for being taken in." ~ Kate Morton

31. "It's only with age I have learned solely to listen to things I want to hear." ~ Kate Morton

32. "The house, she'd explained to them many times, had spoken to her; she'd listened, and it turned out they'd understood one another very well indeed. Greenacres was an imperious old lady, a little worn, to be sure, cranky in her own way-but who wouldn't be?" ~ Kate Morton

33. "Bitte nehmen sie zur Kenntnis, dass es für Niedergeschlagenheit in diesem Haus keinen Platz gibt und die Möglichkeit eines Scheiterns nicht in Betracht gezogen wird. Wir leugnen die Existenz von beidem." ~ Kate Morton

34. "Nachts ist alles anders. Die Dinge verändern sich, wenn die Welt schwarz ist. Ungewissheiten und Verletzungen, Sorgen und Ängste bekommen nachts Zähne." ~ Kate Morton

35. "...and time thickened so that the seconds passed like years." ~ Kate Morton

36. "The house remembered her. Laurel did not consider herself a romantic, but the sense was so strong that for a moment she had no trouble believing that the combination before her of wooden boards and red chimney bricks, or dappled roof tiles and gabled windows at odd angles, was capable of remembrance." ~ Kate Morton

37. "Aside from her marriage, her obituary is the only time a lady's name should appear in the newspaper. And God help her if the funeral is savaged in the press, for she won't get a second chance the following season." ~ Kate Morton

38. "The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe." ~ Kate Morton

39. "Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?" ~ Kate Morton

40. "A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself" ~ Kate Morton

41. "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." ~ Kate Morton

42. "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." ~ Kate Morton

43. "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." ~ Kate Morton

44. "I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion." ~ Kate Morton

45. "I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too." ~ Kate Morton

46. "There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book." ~ Kate Morton

47. "That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets." ~ Kate Morton

48. "...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people." ~ Kate Morton

49. "She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal." ~ Kate Morton

50. "She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well." ~ Kate Morton

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