Kate Morton Quotes

There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.

Alice felt a surge of pity for them, stuck as they were within the white-hot glow of youth, when everything seemed so vital, so essential, so important.

This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade.

Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.

The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone's Eyes

Mrs. Bird smiled at me as I arrived at her side. "They can surprise us, can't they, our parents? The things they got up to before we were born.""Yes, " I said. "Almost like they were real people once.

Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].

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?

it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.

Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious. --The Changeling

And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost.

Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.

Mothers tend toward right on most things.