Kate Morton Quotes

“A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“She could stay at her own place, in her own bed, with her own books and her favourite teacup, without having to negotiate and explain herself.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“Her curiosity was unquenchable.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“Die grosse, runde Bahnhofsuhr, die ueber dem Bahnstein haengt, ihr unerschuetterliches Gesicht und ihre unermuedlichen Zeiger erinnern daran, dass Zeit und Zug auf niemanden warten.”
― Kate Morton

“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, The House at Riverton

“She took her secrets with her, into the cold earth, but I learned them in the end. I know a lot about secrets; I have made them my life”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“The monsters pulled me under again and I heard no more. Day dissolved into night; my boat pushed out once more into stormy seas--”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“A strange thing began to happen, though. Memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of my mind, began to sneak through cracks”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“I find the distant past is sharp and clear. They come often lately, those ghosts from the past, and I’m surprised to find I don’t much mind them”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“I don not know where the likeness went. It slipped through the cracks of time and went to where the lost things are.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“My father called me Birdie; he said I was his little bird. My real name was beautiful, he said, but it was the name of a grown-up lady, the sort of name that wore long skirts and fin silks, but had not the wings to fly.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“She wanted me to look at her sets, to remember things and places from long ago. As if I hadn’t spent a lifetime pretending to forget”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“…The Valley of Fear. I whispered the thrilling words to myself, then lifted the book to my nose and breathed the ink from its pages. The scent of possibilities”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“I nod and he disappears, dissolves like watercolour into a dusty streak of light”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“What it is to share one’s life, to really share it, so that very little matters outside the certainty of its walls. Because the world is very noisy, Elodie, and although life is filled with joy and wonder, there’s evil and sorrow and injustice, too.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“- "Life is long," was all he'd said, his voice calm; he hadn't looked up from the film. "Being human isn't easy.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“Whatever one came across a lock, it was wise to assume that there was something on the other side one ought to see.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter