Quotes by Kate Morton

About Kate Morton:

Kate Morton is an Australian author, who has enjoyed domestic and international success with her novels The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden and The Distant Hours. Morton's most recent novel, The Secret Keeper, was published in 2012.
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But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

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You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.

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They'd fallen into an easy routine, the three of them. Breakfast together in the morning, then Hughie would leave for work and she and Nell would get started in the house. Lil found she liked having a second shadow, enjoyed showing Nell things, expla...

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That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

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You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it." "I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice...

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La vida es demasiado breve para ser moderado.

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Organizas tu vida con lo que tienes, no con lo que te falta.

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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. Photog...

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It's a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past, should exist only in memories glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photography...

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It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different." "Not a mystery." Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history." Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.

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Those who live in memories are never really dead.

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But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

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The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned.

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There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.

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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.

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Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slipper...

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Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].

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Poisons are more my thing

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És meséltem neked az emlékeimről. Nem mindenről. Célt tűztem ki magamnak, és nem akarlak a múltam meséivel untatni. Inkább arról a különös érzésről meséltem, hogy az emlékek valóságosabbá váltak számomra, mint az életem. Arr...

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameKate Morton
  • DescriptionAustralian novelist
  • Born1976
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters