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The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone's Eyes

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

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  7. Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual. – Alex Haley
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  9. Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving
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  14. 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
  15. She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. – Kate Morton
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors. – Kate Morton
  19. History in the storyteller’s hand was a potent force indeed,…. – Kate Morton
  20. 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
  21. They were young; time hadn’t yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions… – Kate Morton
  22. …home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess. – Kate Morton
  23. Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? – Kate Morton
  24. You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing. – Kate Morton
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  28. As if I hadn’t spent a lifetime pretending to forget. – Kate Morton
  29. The simplest falsehoods are the strongest. – Kate Morton
  30. This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade. – Kate Morton
  31. 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
  32. That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets. – Kate Morton
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