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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- Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration. – Marc Chagall
- Pictures … flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night. – Thomas Harris
- Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story. – Palle Oswald
- As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul. – Wilfred Owen
- Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare. – Anthony Liccione
- Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all. – Bob Dylan
- The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing. – Brian Morton
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness. – Victor Nell
- 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
- She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. – Kate Morton
- 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
- 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
- That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors. – Kate Morton
- History in the storyteller’s hand was a potent force indeed,…. – Kate Morton
- 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
- They were young; time hadn’t yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions… – Kate Morton
- …home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess. – Kate Morton
- Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? – Kate Morton
- You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing. – Kate Morton
- Poisons are more my thing – Kate Morton
- How was a boy who’d tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road? – Kate Morton
- I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark. – Kate Morton
- As if I hadn’t spent a lifetime pretending to forget. – Kate Morton
- The simplest falsehoods are the strongest. – Kate Morton
- 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
- 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
- That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets. – Kate Morton
- Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history]. – Kate Morton
- Courage isn’t something you can conjure, it’s either in you or it’s not. – Vikki Wakefield
- Men are minded to conjure the most extraordinary tales about women who would question their place in the world. – LM Myles
- Again his memory failed to conjure her face. It was like trying to call up a melody while another song played. – Laini Taylor
- The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone? – Ian McGuire
- She has wings the color of wild and a soul the color of art. – Melody Lee
- The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home. – Thomas Lloyd Qualls
- Different skin color and same blood color is something that most people don’t know, they don’t know because arrogance make them racist and ignorant. – Werley Nortreus
- Color shows us love.AndLove gives us color. – Anthony T Hincks
- Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong. – Muhammad Ali
- I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had. – Fredrik Backman