All very well for a dull sort of girl to hitch her wheel to a man's wagon, but consider yourself warned, men enjoy a bit of sport, and they all like to catch the brightest prize, but once they do? That's when the fun and games end. His games, her fun.
Kate MortonTo be faced with danger and find oneself fearless was thrilling.
Kate MortonIt is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things?
Kate MortonAs an only child, Cassandra found the well-worn paths of sibling interaction fascinating and horrifying in equal parts.
Kate MortonThey had money, but don’t you go talking about class.
Kate MortonOne of the things I have come to know most surely in my work is that the belief system acquired in childhood is never fully escaped; it may submerge itself for a while, but it always returns in times of need to lay claim to the soul it shaped.
Kate MortonWhat could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.
Kate MortonBut it is human, is it not, to long for that from which we are barred?
Kate MortonShe was the sort of person who needed to be kept happy, he realized. Not as a matter of selfish expectation, but as a simple fact of design; like a piano or a harp, she'd been made to function best at a certain tuning.
Kate MortonIt is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of a revelation.
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