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The Lake House QUOTES

The Lake House QUOTES

41 " They'd eaten every meal outdoors, hard-boiled eggs and cheese from a picnic basket, and drunk wine under the lilac tree in the walled garden. They'd disappeared inside the woods, and stolen apples from the farm next door, and floated down the stream in her little boat as one silken hour spun itself into the next. On a clear, still night, they'd dug the old bicycles out of the shed and cycled together along the dusty lane, racing, laughing, breathing in salt from the warm air as moonlight made the stones, still hot from the day, shine lustrous white. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

42 " It wasn't so much the discovery of a single clue, as the coming together of many small details. That moment when the sun shifts by a degree and a spider's web, previously concealed, begins to shine like fine-spun silver. Because suddenly Sadie could see how it all connected and she knew what had happened that night. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

43 " The only thing one can count on is that no one else can truly be counted on.” Alice "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

44 " All her life, Alice had been interested in people. She didn't always like them, she rarely sought their company for reasons of social fulfillment, but she did find them fascinating. And there was nowhere better for seeing people than in the rabbit warrens of the Underground. All of London passed through those tunnels, a steady flow of humanity in its many weird and wonderful forms, and among them Alice slipped like a ghost. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

45 " to desire fewer possessions and to possess greater love. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

46 " I dislike the word closure; the idea of a finite ending is all well and good in fiction, but a rather infantile expectation in this vast world of ours. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

47 " ---All that matters to me are people and experience. Connections - that's the thing. That flicker of electricity between people, the invisible tie. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

48 " She wanted you to move forward without regrets, not to deny the past entirely. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

49 " We do not always have a choice in where and how and whom, and love gives us the courage to withstand that which we never thought we could. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

50 " Guilty characters might escape prosecution, but they never escaped justice. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

51 " It’s not easy, getting old, feeling one’s relevance slip away. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

52 " When Anthony graduated from his preclinical training with first-class honors and a university medal, it was Mr. Llewellyn he invited to sit beside Eleanor and his parents to watch him receive his degree. As the vice chancellor delivered his rousing speech about manhood and duty—“If a man cannot be useful to his country, he is better dead”—Mr. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

53 " There were so many aspects of Eleanor her daughters didn't know. She took them out sometimes, those hidden traits, and turned them over, inspecting and admiring from all sides, as if they were precious seed pearls. And then she wrapped them up again safely and tucked them away. She would never reveal them again because then she'd have to explain why she'd changed. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

54 " It was true what people said, that when one became old (and how sneakily that happened, how sly time was), memories of the long-ago past, repressed for decades, were suddenly bright and clear. A "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

55 " he was a man on a date with destiny, "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

56 " por muy lejos que huyamos, por mucho que empecemos de nuevo, el pasado siempre encuentra la manera de acortar distancias y alcanzarnos.   * "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

57 " To be inside, with the hope of soon being warm and dry, while rain fell outside, was a splendid, simple joy. Flames "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

58 " People are fascinating, aren’t they, the closer you get to knowing what makes them tick? "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

59 " life wasn’t a fairy tale and there were instances when one couldn’t have everything one wanted, not at the same time. As "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House

60 " She’d forgotten love could be like that, simple and easy and joyous. The love she felt for Anthony had deepened over the decades, and it had changed; life had thrown the pair of them challenges and love had adapted to meet them. Love had come to mean putting someone else first, sacrificing, keeping the patched-up ship from sinking in the storms. "

― Kate Morton , The Lake House