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As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget.

As if I hadn’t spent a lifetime pretending to forget.
– Kate Morton

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  2. pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself.. – Jinnul Jr
  3. Pretending to him that she felt something would be easy. Pretending to herself that she didn’t? That was a whole other story. – Brynn Kelly
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  5. But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960’s. – Kate Morton
  6. She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. – Kate Morton
  7. Nature is cruel. Isn’t that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they’re still beautiful. Now they’ll stay that way. – Kate Morton
  8. What she really felt like doing was reading. Escaping into the Enchanted Wood, up the Faraway Tree, or with the Famous Five into Smuggler’s Top. – Kate Morton
  9. That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors. – Kate Morton
  10. History in the storyteller’s hand was a potent force indeed,…. – Kate Morton
  11. To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn’t hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness. – Kate Morton
  12. They were young; time hadn’t yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions… – Kate Morton
  13. …home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess. – Kate Morton
  14. Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? – Kate Morton
  15. You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing. – Kate Morton
  16. Poisons are more my thing – Kate Morton
  17. How was a boy who’d tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road? – Kate Morton
  18. I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark. – Kate Morton
  19. The simplest falsehoods are the strongest. – Kate Morton
  20. This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade. – Kate Morton
  21. Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn’t know the first thing about being brave. – Kate Morton
  22. The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone’s Eyes – Kate Morton
  23. That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets. – Kate Morton
  24. Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history]. – Kate Morton
  25. Time spent in assessing one’s self, is the time spent best. – Abhijit Naskar
  26. Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else. – Joyce Rachelle
  27. Any time that is spent or wasted is a life wasted or spent. – Sunday Adelaja
  28. A moment spent in Sorrow or a moment spent in Pain is a waste of a Great Treasure that you will never get again. -RVM – RVM
  29. Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent. – Tahir Shah
  30. If money is spent in the wrong way, then -˜control’ the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then -˜decontrol’ the spending. – Dada Bhagwan
  31. Money spent, will never out value spent time. – Anthony Liccione
  32. My Mom often said… Every minute spent with Mr. wrong is a minute that can’t be spent with Mr. Right. – Raymond D Longoria Jr
  33. All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was. – Paula Heller Garland
  34. Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted. – Henrietta C Mears
  35. And maybe a few days of freedom would be better than a lifetime spent as a slave. – Becky Allen
  36. A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  37. Given the choice between one lifetime spent with you or a thousand without, I will always choose you. – Danielle L Jensen
  38. The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity. – Leonard Ravenhill
  39. Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow. – Abhijit Naskar
  40. We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful. – Marc Aug

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