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Kate Morton, The House at Riverton Quotes: ...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess.
         

...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess.


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I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

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



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