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
ProfessionAuthor
CountryAustralia
would-be paper kind
I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.
fool actors hindsight
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
mind woe busy
The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
timing
So much in life came down to timing.
responsibility years weight
The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear.
children air woe
I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .
book taken character
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...
done apologizing convince
If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.
people unhappy knows
Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.
party humble house
But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.
girl heart men
Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.
character funny-things people
It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.
tales storyteller
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
sleep monsters reason
When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.