The simplest falsehoods are the strongest.
– Kate Morton
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- This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade. – Kate Morton
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- Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history]. – Kate Morton
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- Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods. – Chuck Todd
- Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are descended from, is their birthright. – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- You need to call on your best and strongest self. – Kate Mulgrew
- There’s no crying in the rank book. – William Morton
- The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing. – Brian Morton
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- Maybe journey is not so much a journey ahead, or a journey into space, but a journey into presence. – Nelle Morton
- What a writer brought to a book didn’t matter as much as what the reader contributed. – Lisa Morton
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