“Love at first sight, she wrote giddily to Millie. But of course such feelings weren't 'true' love (that was what she would… — Kate Atkinson Children Copy Share Image
The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be… — Kate Atkinson Cheerful Copy Share Image
“And the English soul, if it resided anywhere, was surely in some unheroic back garden—a patch of lawn, a bed of roses,… — Kate Atkinson Bed of roses Copy Share Image
Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such… — Kate Atkinson Animal Copy Share Image
“We cannot turn away,” Miss Woolf told her, “we must get on with our job and we must bear witness.” What did… — Kate Atkinson Remember 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 Cupboards Copy Share Image
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if… — Kate Atkinson Character Copy Share Image
“Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like.… — Kate Atkinson Although Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren't we designed so that we can close our ears as… — Kate Atkinson Cry Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical… — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It… — Kate Atkinson About Copy Share Image
Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say… — Kate Atkinson Adventure Copy Share Image
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I… — Kate Atkinson Believe Copy Share Image
What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life… — Kate Atkinson Carrying on Copy Share Image
Jennifer had never liked the pain of remembering what had happened, but for Theo it was the pain that kept Laura alive… — Kate Atkinson Alive Copy Share Image
“They have no sense of humour whatsoever – even Bunty has a sense of humour compared with our hosts. They have united… — Kate Atkinson Humor Copy Share Image
“You don’t see the point of English literature?’ ‘I don’t see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?” — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
“Kittens were in continual abundance on the farm, there was a kind of kitten currency in the neighborhood, they were bartered for… — Kate Atkinson Parenting Copy Share Image
“Butter was plastered on to the roll with no regard for the hard labor of the cow” — Kate Atkinson Labor Copy Share Image
“trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world.” — Kate Atkinson Humor Copy Share Image
“He was officially a lunatic, she decided. Strangely, that didn't make him less attractive.” — Kate Atkinson Jackson-brodie Copy Share Image
“...but one cannot look backward, only forward. What has passed has passed forever.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
