Wenn die Vernunft schläft, kommen die Ungeheuer der Verdrängung ans Tageslicht.
Kate MortonNachts ist alles anders. Die Dinge verändern sich, wenn die Welt schwarz ist. Ungewissheiten und Verletzungen, Sorgen und Ängste bekommen nachts Zähne.
Kate MortonBitte nehmen sie zur Kenntnis, dass es für Niedergeschlagenheit in diesem Haus keinen Platz gibt und die Möglichkeit eines Scheiterns nicht in Betracht gezogen wird. Wir leugnen die Existenz von beidem.
Kate MortonFairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.
Kate MortonPeople marveled at her ability to build characters from the inside out, to submerge herself and disappear beneath the skin of another person, but there was no trick to it; she merely bothered to learn the character's secrets. Laurel knew quite a bit about keeping secrets. She also knew that was where the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots.
Kate MortonThe house, she'd explained to them many times, had spoken to her; she'd listened, and it turned out they'd understood one another very well indeed. Greenacres was an imperious old lady, a little worn, to be sure, cranky in her own way-but who wouldn't be?
Kate MortonI probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me. For although I didn't know it then, after falling deep inside the world of the Mud Man, real life was never going to be able to compete with fiction again. I've been grateful to Miss Perry ever sense, for when she handed that novel over the counter and urged my harried mother to pass it on to me, she'd either confused me with a much older child or else she'd glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've always chosen to believe the latter. After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.
Kate MortonStichwörter: reading
Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
Kate MortonChildren don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.
Kate MortonThe city still has working phone booths?’ ‘It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I’m in serious trouble.
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