“Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.” — Kate Atkinson Faith Copy Share Image
“A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win is for enough good women to do nothing.” — Kate Atkinson Evil Copy Share Image
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book. — Kate Atkinson Book Copy Share Image
“Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two," she said.” — Kate Atkinson Babies Copy Share Image
I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Good news?’ Gloria queried. She wondered if Emily was pregnant again (was that good news?), so she was taken aback when Emily… — Kate Atkinson Good news Copy Share Image
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“A good rule of thumb was that the more noise someone was making the less likely they were to die.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“You don’t see the point of English literature?’ ‘I don’t see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?” — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“He was never entirely sure what financial services meant. It seemed to cover a spectrum from innocent to guilty and then extremely… — Kate Atkinson Capitalism Copy Share Image
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane. — Kate Atkinson Being Copy Share Image
“This was their third bar since Piccadilly and they were both agreed that the two of them were very drunk but had… — Kate Atkinson Drunk Copy Share Image
“Ursula tried to remember what her own last words to her father had been. A nonchalant 'See you later,' she concluded. The… — Kate Atkinson Death Copy Share Image
“I don't think I'd mind working on a cheese counter. It would leave my mind free to do whatever it wanted -… — Kate Atkinson Aloneness Copy Share Image
“If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of… — Kate Atkinson Conception Copy Share Image
“Kittens were in continual abundance on the farm, there was a kind of kitten currency in the neighborhood, they were bartered for… — Kate Atkinson Cats Copy Share Image
Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such… — Kate Atkinson Animal Copy Share Image
When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head… — Kate Atkinson Another life Copy Share Image
“Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented… — Kate Atkinson Exercise Copy Share Image
Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“He had taken a few days' leave from his army training and they had taken refuge in the Charing Cross Hotel while… — Kate Atkinson Fitness Copy Share Image
“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and… — Kate Atkinson Fantasy Copy Share Image
“It was the kind of summer evening that made Ursula want to be alone. 'Oh,' Izzie said, 'You're at an age when… — Kate Atkinson Coming of age Copy Share Image
“The triumph of the human spirit,” the new nursing sister said, new enough to talk about “positive outcomes” and “enhancement programmes”—emollient management-speak,… — Kate Atkinson Health Copy Share Image
“Olivia was her only beautiful child. Julia, with her dark curls and snub nose, was pretty but her character wasn't, Sylvia ---… — Kate Atkinson Children Copy Share Image
“From the open French windows Sylvie watched Maurice erecting a makeshift tennis net, which mostly seemed to involve whacking everything in sight… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Fox Corner - that's what we should call the house. No one else has a house with that name and shouldn't that… — Kate Atkinson Corner Copy Share Image
“She had had affairs over the years ... but she had never been pregnant, never been a mother or a wife and… — Kate Atkinson Heart Copy Share Image
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love. — Kate Atkinson Gratitude Copy Share Image
Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. — Kate Atkinson Earth Copy Share Image
“Time is construct, in relativity every thing flows, no past or present, only the now.” — Kate Atkinson Clock Copy Share Image
If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much. — Kate Atkinson Damnation Copy Share Image
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
