“Ah, I know," Bridget said. "For sure, you have the sixth sense." Mrs. Glover, wrestling with the plum pudding, snorted her disapproval.… — Kate Atkinson Curmudgeons Copy Share Image
“Did God get out of bed one morning and draw back the curtains (Reggie's imaginary God led a very domesticated life) and… — Kate Atkinson Death Copy Share Image
I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more… — Kate Atkinson Always Copy Share Image
I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At… — Kate Atkinson Award 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
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying… — Kate Atkinson Been Copy Share Image
“We're just cogs in a machine really, aren't we?" Miss Fawcett said to her and Ursula said, "But remember, without the cog… — Kate Atkinson Computers Copy Share Image
“A simple acceptance of what comes to us, regarding it as neither bad nor good. “Werde, der du bist, as he would… — Kate Atkinson Become 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
“He smelled of cloves and pipe tobacco and had a twinkly look about him as if he were going to toast muffins… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The roof of the big top was dark blue, spangled with silver stars, and it reminded him of something but he couldn't… — Kate Atkinson Dark blue Copy Share Image
“She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay… — Kate Atkinson Acts of kindness 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
“...how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“If Richard had lived, perhaps... but one cannot look backwards, only forwards. What has passed has passed for ever. What is it… — 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 Future Copy Share Image
I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am. — Kate Atkinson Mad Copy Share Image
“On the outside of the bedroom door there was a plaque that said Valerie . On the way up, Jackson noticed that… — Kate Atkinson Names Copy Share Image
But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through… — Kate Atkinson Accounts Copy Share Image
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy. — Kate Atkinson Absent Copy Share Image
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school.… — Kate Atkinson Childhood 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 Copy Share Image
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child.… — Kate Atkinson Children Copy Share Image
You can step in the same river but the water will always be new. — Kate Atkinson Rivers Copy Share Image
