Kate Morton Quotes about Children

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

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

Children, Home, Magnet

Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.

Kate Morton

Children, Heart, Responsibility

Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

Kate Morton

Children, Adults, Ifs

Abigail Tarttelin, Sahar Delijani, Christina Schwarz, Kate Morton, Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Atria Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: A Free Collection of Excerpts from Some of Our Favorite Writers”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

Kate Morton

Children, Past, Parent

Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

Kate Morton

Mother, Children, Stories

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've always chosen to believe the latter. After all, it's the librarian's one sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

Kate Morton

Children, Confused, Believe