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 Morton


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To be faced with danger and find oneself fearless was thrilling.

Kate Morton


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It 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 Morton


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As an only child, Cassandra found the well-worn paths of sibling interaction fascinating and horrifying in equal parts.

Kate Morton


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They had money, but don’t you go talking about class.

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One 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 Morton


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What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.

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But it is human, is it not, to long for that from which we are barred?

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She 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.

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It is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of a revelation.

Kate Morton


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