Kate Morton quotes

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.
-- Kate Morton

#Inspirational #Life #Missing

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.
-- Kate Morton

#Girl #Mean #Expecting

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.
-- Kate Morton

#Memories #Mistress

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

#Writing #Thinking #Two

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?
-- Kate Morton

#People #Way #Terrible

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....
-- Kate Morton

#Photography #Art #Memories

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
-- Kate Morton

#Garden #Hands #Earth

My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.
-- Kate Morton

#Eye #Dust #Soul

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.
-- Kate Morton

#Children #Past #Parent

Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.
-- Kate Morton

#Phones #Cities #London

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.
-- Kate Morton

#Children #Heart #Responsibility

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
-- Kate Morton

#Enough #These Days

She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.
-- Kate Morton

#Summer #Stars #Rain

. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
-- Kate Morton

#Found #Companion

They say everyone needs something to love.
-- Kate Morton

#Needs

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

#Real #Book #Able

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.
-- Kate Morton

#People #Unhappy #Enough

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
-- Kate Morton

#Longing #Victim #Pragmatic

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.
-- Kate Morton

#Book #Together #Purpose

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

#Grief #Poet #Loved Ones

There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it’s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.
-- Kate Morton

#Wall #Reality #Cities

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

#Mother #Children #Stories

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.
-- Kate Morton

#Fun #Keeping Secrets #Knowing

Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.
-- Kate Morton

#Strong #Remember #Enough

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

#Second Chance #People #Giving

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.
-- Kate Morton

#Girl #Cat #Curiosity

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!
-- Kate Morton

#Events #Might #Remember

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
-- Kate Morton

#Book #Writing #Successful

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

#Book #Feelings #Adults

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
-- Kate Morton

#Writing #Thinking #People

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
-- Kate Morton

#Retrospect #Becoming #Realising

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
-- Kate Morton

#Book #Given #Given Up

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
-- Kate Morton

#Passion #Writing #Stories

I love the structural part of the writing process.
-- Kate Morton

#Writing #Process #Writing Process

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.
-- Kate Morton

#Book #Intelligent #Thinking

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

#Writing #Might #Way

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

#Doors #Mets #Wanted

In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.
-- Kate Morton

#Real #Opportunity #Order

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
-- Kate Morton

#Procrastination #Reluctance

I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.
-- Kate Morton

#Clever #Adventure #Mean

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
-- Kate Morton

#Despair #Action #Oneself

A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven
-- Kate Morton

#True Friend #Dark #Light

What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.
-- Kate Morton

#Perfect #Persons

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.
-- Kate Morton

#Expectations

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton
-- Kate Morton

#Garden #House #Stranger