The Clockmaker S Daughter Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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