“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 Happy birthday 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
“He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he… — Kate Atkinson Life 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 Country-living 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
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open… — Kate Atkinson Cosmic Copy Share Image
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson Feels 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 Hatch Copy Share Image
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. — Kate Atkinson Ends 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… — Kate Atkinson Aspects 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
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson Autobiography Copy Share Image
“she could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk.” — Kate Atkinson 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 Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up. — Kate Atkinson Great Copy Share Image
“Amelia looked at the eggs-like sickly, jaundiced eyes-and thought of her own eggs, a handful left, old shrivelled like musty dried fruit… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the… — Kate Atkinson Education Copy Share Image
“Time is construct, in relativity every thing flows, no past or present, only the now.” — Kate Atkinson Physics Copy Share Image
“Pamela, even at a distance, was the voice of her conscience, but then it was very easy to have a conscience from… — Kate Atkinson Ethics Copy Share Image
“Slattern! What a wonderful new word. 'Slattern,' I murmur appreciatively to Patricia. 'Yes, slattern,' Bunty says firmly. 'That's what she is.' 'Not… — Kate Atkinson Awkward moments Copy Share Image
“And I can't cry, I don't even want to cry. My tears would never do justice to this loss.” — Kate Atkinson Justice Copy Share Image
“Twittering just seemed to be people telling other people what they were doing--getting in the shower, making coffee. Who on earth wanted… — Kate Atkinson Humor Copy Share Image
