"The House at Riverton" Quotes
"The House at Riverton" by Kate Morton is a historical fiction novel that unravels the secrets and tragedies of a grand English estate through the memories of a former servant, Grace, reflecting on the events leading up to a poet's mysterious death in the 1920s.
historical fiction | 599 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate into the past.
The past is a strange place, comforted by the certainty of its secrets.
In the end, the past is not as immutable as we like to think.
People in grief need someone to watch over them.
We cannot understand the present without understanding the past.
Everyone has secrets. It’s part of being human.
Memory is a tricky thing, a flickering light in the darkness.
It is curious how some moments stay with us for a lifetime, while others are forgotten.
Truth can be a dangerous thing.
We are all products of our past.
