Cynthia

“I don’t think I was planned exactly.” “I should say not,” he agreed. “But you were loved, which is arguably more important.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“The camera is ubiquitous. They all carry one now. Even as I watch, they traipse through the rooms of the house, pointing their devices at this chair or those tiles. Experiencing the world at one remove, through the windows of their phones, making images for later so that they do not need to bother seeing or feeling things now.”
― 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

“But bad habits aren’t so easily banished. They bide their time and wait for frustration, doubt, and then temptation to do their bidding.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Winter Cottage