“Sweet sixteen," Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. "Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you." Ursula still harbored the feeling… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Time is construct, in relativity every thing flows, no past or present, only the now.” — Kate Atkinson 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
I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past… — Kate Atkinson 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 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 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
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“He wondered what a visitor from the past would make of it. It used to be the poor who were thin and… — Kate Atkinson 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 Copy Share Image
“How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother. — 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 Copy Share Image
I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.' — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Before the beginning is the void and the void belongs in neither time nor space and is therefore beyond our imagination. Nothing… — 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
