Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At R... by Kate Morton

Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton

Kate Morton

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You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing. by Kate Morton

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

missing inspirational life

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

expecting girl mean

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance. by Kate Morton

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

mistress memories

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . . by Kate Morton

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

reluctance procrastination

No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.

writing two thinking

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.

photography memories art

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.

garden earth hands

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away? by Kate Morton

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

terrible people way

My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.

dust eye soul

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing... by Kate Morton

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

pragmatic longing victim

I 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.

simple self book

Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

next running doors

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well. by Kate Morton

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

wanted-to-be-loved wells wanted

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

real book fiction

A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven by Kate Morton

A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven

true-friend light dark

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.

different war book

... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted... by Kate Morton

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

magnet home children

A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.

ancient lips wall

In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.

real opportunity order

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

adults feelings book