Kate Morton Quotes about Heart

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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.

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

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

Kate Morton

Lying, Heart, Dark

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft countenance. In others, however, it leads to the formation of a tiny ice flint in their heart. Ice that, though at times concealed, never properly melts. Rose, though she would have liked to be one of the former, knew herself deep down to be one of the latter.

Kate Morton

Beautiful, Heart, Acceptance