It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....

Kate Morton

Tags: art past photography



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... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.

Kate Morton


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It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different."
"Not a mystery."
Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."
Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.

Kate Morton

Tags: writing history authors mystery



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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.

Kate Morton

Tags: life history people time names dates spirits



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She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

Kate Morton


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She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.

Kate Morton


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It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

Kate Morton

Tags: gardening



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A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Kate Morton

Tags: dependence



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...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

Kate Morton


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Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

Kate Morton


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