It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty … - Kate Morton

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Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

Kate Morton

It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.

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Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

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Those who live in memories are never really dead. " The House At Riverton

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Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.

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She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

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In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

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