“I'm always so glad," Sylvie murmured, "that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Long lazy days like these will never come again in your life. You think they will but they won't.' -Sylvie” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find?… — Kate Atkinson Safe place Copy Share Image
Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it? — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“That was the problem with time travel, of course (apart from the impossibility) - one would always be a Cassandra, spreading doom… — Kate Atkinson Cassandra Copy Share Image
“Get down,' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire… — Kate Atkinson Family Copy Share Image
What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be… — Kate Atkinson Chance 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 Children Copy Share Image
“Vinny rarely leaves the house so when she does it's an occasion of some importance to her. She spends a lot of… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“ Truth is truth to the end of reckoning . What was that from? Measure for Measure ? But perhaps, truth was… — Kate Atkinson Measure for measure Copy Share Image
The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be… — Kate Atkinson Cheerful Copy Share Image
“Her heart swelled with the high holiness of it all. Imminence was all around. She was both warrior and shining spear. She… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“There was always a second before the siren started when she was aware of a sound as yet unheard. It was like… — Kate Atkinson Siren Copy Share Image
“Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was… — Kate Atkinson Perception Copy Share Image
“Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive… — Kate Atkinson Boys Copy Share Image
“Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness.” — Kate Atkinson Madness Copy Share Image
“I dreamt of going on the stage once," he said, looking crestfallen. "It's never too late," I said vaguely. A lie, of… — Kate Atkinson Dreams Copy Share Image
Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.” — Kate Atkinson Better way Copy Share Image
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and… — Kate Atkinson Life Copy Share Image
“It was funny because she thought of herself as a good team player, although sometimes she suspected that no one else on… — Kate Atkinson Funny thought Copy Share Image
“There were doorways between this world and the next, she said, but only certain people could pass through them.” — Kate Atkinson Doorways Copy Share Image
“Because life is an adventure, of course.” “I would say it was more of an endurance race,” Sylvie said. “Or an obstacle… — Kate Atkinson Adventure Copy Share Image
“This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went,… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“They have no sense of humour whatsoever – even Bunty has a sense of humour compared with our hosts. They have united… — Kate Atkinson Comedy 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 Heart Copy Share Image
“But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.” — Kate Atkinson Future Copy Share Image
“misquote Edmund Burke rather than Milton. All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for… — Kate Atkinson Evil Copy Share Image
“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. — Kate Atkinson Belief Copy Share Image
Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and… — Kate Atkinson Acquires Copy Share Image
“You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“And the English soul, if it resided anywhere, was surely in some unheroic back garden—a patch of lawn, a bed of roses,… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?” — Kate Atkinson Human race Copy Share Image
“Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character.” — Kate Atkinson Children Copy Share Image
“Untouched by morning and untouched by noon, sleep the meek members of the Resurrection, rafter of satin and roof of stone.’ Emily… — Kate Atkinson Morning Copy Share Image
“After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world,… — Kate Atkinson Obsolete Copy Share Image
