She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.
– Kate Morton
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- Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Viktor E Frankl
- We fear beginnings we fear endings. We fear changing we fear -œstaying stuck.- We fear success we fear failure. We fear living we fear dying. – Susan Jeffers
- Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go. – Abhijit Naskar
- If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation. – Haruki Murakami
- It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn’t let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt. – Maggie Stiefvater
- You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon-” – Ayn Rand
- although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6] – Linda Lantieri
- An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God’s response. – Shannon L Alder
- Real peace goes beyond explanation. – Asa Don Brown
- 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
- 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
- This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade. – 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
- I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I’m not around to tell you so. – Kiera C
- Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates. – Graham Greene
- Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse. – Kate Chopin
- No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along. – Cus DAmato
- They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me. – Patrick Rothfuss
- For people who like that sort of thing, that’s the sort of thing they like. – William F Buckley Jr
- We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love. – Auliq Ice
- Question is not whom I am going to love, but question is whom I am going not to love. – Debasish Mridha
- Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike. – Thomas Hardy
- You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. – Kahlil Gibran
- You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. – Sri Chinmoy