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The House at Riverton QUOTES

The House at Riverton QUOTES

141 " Para quien sabe mirar, siempre hay señales. "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

142 " in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists. "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

143 " We were two girls, the same age, living in the same house in the same country, and in Hannah I glimpsed the host of glistening possibilities that could never be mine. "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

144 " There's nothing spoils a young lady's loveliness so much as impertinence of intellect. "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

145 " I felt as though I had opened the cover of a beautiful, glossy book and become lost in the magic of its story, only to be forced too soon to put the book aside. "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

146 " Oh, no; it’s fascinating,” Ursula said. “A rising star of the English poetry scene kills himself by a dark lake on the eve of a huge society party. His only witnesses are two beautiful sisters who never speak to each other again. One his fiancée, the other rumored to be his lover. It’s terribly romantic. "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

147 " ...I want to know how it feels like to be altered by life. "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

148 " Don't you ever feel that way? Don't you ever wish for more than life has given you? "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

149 " I like Sylvia. She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside. "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

150 " Quiero ser libre, Emme. Estar abierta a cualquier aventura que pueda presentarse "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

151 " A strange thing began to happen, though. Memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of my mind, began to sneak through cracks "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

152 " One evening, when the household had all retired to bed, the staff gathered by the raging servants'-hall fire. Mr. Hamilton and Mrs. Townsend formed bookends on either side, while Nancy, Katie and I huddled between on dining chairs, squinting in the flickering firelight at the scarves we were dutifully knitting. A cold wind lashed against the windowpanes, and insurgent draughts set Mrs. Townsend's jars of dry goods to quivering on the kitchen shelf. "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

153 " She wanted me to look at her sets, to remember things and places from long ago. As if I hadn’t spent a lifetime pretending to forget "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton

154 " I find the distant past is sharp and clear. They come often lately, those ghosts from the past, and I’m surprised to find I don’t much mind them "

― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton