Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“…how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Love at first sight, she wrote giddily to Millie. But of course such feelings weren't 'true' love (that was what she would… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Afterwards—because it turned out that there was to be an afterwards for Teddy—he resolved that he would try always to be kind.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“[T]he parent-child relationship was one way, you gave them all your love and they were under no obligation to pay a penny… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Sweet sixteen," Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. "Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you." Ursula still harbored the feeling that some… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing,… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“she could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“misquote Edmund Burke rather than Milton. All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
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![“[T]he parent-child relationship was one way, you gave them all your love and they were under no obligation to pay a penny back. Of course, if they did love you then that was the icing on the cake with cherries on top. And chocolate shavings and those little silver balls that cracked your fillings.” quote by Kate Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5f5/kate-atkinson-1265_icing-on-the-cake_t-he-parent-child-relationship-was-one-w_2108426.jpg)
