Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden Quotes
His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.
The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.
She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.
Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!
To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.
Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious. --The Changeling
Tragedy has been described as 'the conflict between desire and possibility.' Following this definition, is The Forgotten Garden a tragedy? If so, in what way/s?
The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone's Eyes
This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade.
Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.
How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?
That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.
What she really felt like doing was reading. Escaping into the Enchanted Wood, up the Faraway Tree, or with the Famous Five into Smuggler's Top.
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.