Kate Morton
Kate Morton
Kate Mortonis an international bestselling Australian author. Morton has sold more than 10 million books in 38 countries, making her one of Australia's "biggest publishing exports". The award-winning author has written five novels: The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours,The Secret Keeper, and The Lake House, which was published in October 2015...
NationalityAustralian
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CountryAustralia
hate soul littles
Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.
life-is life-happiness given
Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.
found companion
. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
needs
They say everyone needs something to love.
experts virtue hindsight
But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
sibling games play
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.
real book fiction
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
book simple self
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.
running doors next
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.
hurt night anxiety
Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493
light secret letters
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.
when-you-love-someone love-someone
when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.
people photograph force
Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.
years people looks
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.