Trisha Hall

“Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“She deserved a man who could offer her the best of everything, not a lifetime of butcher's leftovers got on the cheap and a drop of condensed milk in her tea when they couldn't stretch to sugar. Jimmy was working hard to become that man, and as soon as he did, by God, he was going to marry her and never let her go.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“It's the past. Thoughts and dreams, hopes and hurts, all brewed together, fermenting slowly in the fusty air, unable ever to dissipate completely.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours