Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“There were doorways between this world and the next, she said, but only certain people could pass through 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
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
“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness... At work, they regarded her as a person apart... They imagined there must be more… — Kate Atkinson 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 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.” — 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? It must… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
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 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
“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 Image
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
