Kate Morton is an Australian author. She is known for her best-selling novels, including The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, and The Distant Hours. Her seventh book, Homecoming, was published in April 2023. (wikipedia)
She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.
There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it’s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.
Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.
But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton
...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.
That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.
We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.