She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said. — Kate Atkinson Animal Copy Share Image
“A woman should be a comfort and a relief, a restful pillow for the weary head.” — Kate Atkinson Comfort Relief Copy Share Image
“Of course, I don’t believe in God,’ Dr Kellet said. ‘But I believe in heaven. One has to,” — Kate Atkinson Believe Copy Share Image
“Just because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again.” — Kate Atkinson Happened Copy Share Image
“Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing” — Kate Atkinson Suffragette Copy Share Image
“Fine,’ she said, using the universal Scottish word for every state of being from ‘I’m dying in anguish’ to ‘I’m experiencing euphoric… — Kate Atkinson Death 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 Like Moths Copy Share Image
Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it… — Kate Atkinson Always Copy Share Image
“common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.” — Kate Atkinson Good ideas Copy Share Image
'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it? — Kate Atkinson Awkward Copy Share Image
“She supposed she was a little cog in the big wheel of Empire. “Nothing wrong with being a cog,” Maurice said, himself… — Kate Atkinson Cogs Copy Share Image
He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has… — Kate Atkinson Baby Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice,’ ” he remembered Sylvie saying, “is a word that makes people feel noble about slaughter.” “These” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I don't think I'd mind working on a cheese counter. It would leave my mind free to do whatever it wanted -… — Kate Atkinson Aloneness 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 Conception Copy Share Image
Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How… — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
“Afterwards—because it turned out that there was to be an afterwards for Teddy—he resolved that he would try always to be kind.… — Kate Atkinson Best love 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
“From here he could see the farmer's daughter in the yard, feeding the geese. Wasn't there a nursery rhyme in there somewhere?… — Kate Atkinson Children Copy Share Image
“Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels… — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing was much more productive than people thought; Jackson often had his most profound insights when he appeared to be entirely… — Kate Atkinson Jackson Copy Share Image
“Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead.” — Kate Atkinson Life Copy Share Image
“They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge.” — Kate Atkinson Death Copy Share Image
Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future. — Kate Atkinson Change Copy Share Image
“... the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.” — Kate Atkinson Crazily Copy Share Image
You can step in the same river but the water will always be new. — Kate Atkinson River Copy Share Image
“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.” — Kate Atkinson Irish accent Copy Share Image
“Martin couldn't imagine a world where there was no time to read.” — Kate Atkinson Martin Copy Share Image
“you walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living.” — Kate Atkinson Life Copy Share Image
Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different. — Kate Atkinson Different Copy Share Image
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. — Kate Atkinson Beginning Copy Share Image
“Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?” — Kate Atkinson Scarlet Copy Share Image
Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance. — Kate Atkinson Events Copy Share Image
“trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world.” — Kate Atkinson Comedy Copy Share Image
