"And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost."
- Kate Morton
"Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it."
"She forced herself to stroll casually and appraise her plants. The wisteria was shedding its final leaves, the jasmine had long lost its flowers, but the autumn had been mild and the pink roses were s..."
"It was a garden, a walled garden. Overgrown but with beautiful bones visible still. Someone had cared for this garden once. The remains of two paths snaked back and forth, intertwined like the lacing ..."
"With a glance back towards the house, he pulled the secret sketches from within. He'd been working at them on and off for a fortnight now, ever since he'd come across Cousin Eliza's fairy tales among ..."
"Mothers tend toward right on most things."
"The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself."