{"author":"Kate Morton","author_id":"Kate+Morton","total_quotes":67,"quotes":[{"text":"And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost.","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["ptsd","shell-shock","trauma"],"id":537,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"},{"text":"There was much work to be done in the crone's cottage, but the Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented. She came to love the changing seasons and learned the satisfaction of sowing seeds and tending crops. And although she was becoming beautiful, the Princess did not know it, for the crone had neither looking glass nor vanity and thus the Princess had not learned the ways of either.","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["crone","fairy-tale","princess","story"],"id":4822,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"},{"text":"It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["family-relationships","love","siblings","sorrow"],"id":7280,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"},{"text":"Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["death","memories","past","sad"],"id":7535,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"},{"text":"As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget.","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["memories"],"id":11668,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"},{"text":"That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["secrets"],"id":17016,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"},{"text":"Mrs. Bird smiled at me as I arrived at her side. 'They can surprise us, can't they, our parents? The things they got up to before we were born.'Yes,' I said. 'Almost like they were real people once.","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["parents","relationships"],"id":23669,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"},{"text":"How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["poverty"],"id":42943,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"},{"text":"...Home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess.","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["children","home"],"id":65195,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"},{"text":"As the boat drew nearer to shore, and tiny dots in the distance became seagulls, she opened the book across her lap and gazed at the beautiful black-and-white sketch of a woman and a deer side by side in the clearing of a thorny forest. And somehow, though she could not read the words, the little girl realized the she knew this picture's tale. Of a young princess who traveled a great distance across the sea to find a precious, hidden item belonging to someone she dearly loved.","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["book","fairy-tale","illustration","nell-o-connor"],"id":78777,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":67,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}