“I'm always so glad," Sylvie murmured, "that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.” — Kate Atkinson Glad Copy Share Image
“One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. “One must avoid dark thoughts at all… — Kate Atkinson Blink of an eye Copy Share Image
I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so… — Kate Atkinson Died Copy Share Image
“All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an… — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
“…how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it… — Kate Atkinson Love Copy Share Image
Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced. — Kate Atkinson Death Copy Share Image
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing. — Kate Atkinson Because 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
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
“Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive… — Kate Atkinson Boys Copy Share Image
The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard… — Kate Atkinson Bad Copy Share Image
“ Truth is truth to the end of reckoning . What was that from? Measure for Measure ? But perhaps, truth was… — Kate Atkinson Measure for measure 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
“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 Looking forward 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
“Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women?” — Kate Atkinson War 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
“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
It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this… — Kate Atkinson Afterlife 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 Past Copy Share Image
“The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with… — Kate Atkinson Heart Copy Share Image
“As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some… — Kate Atkinson Bird Copy Share Image
“I always thought the girl in that picture had the look of a frog about her,” Nancy said, thinking, I look enigmatic… — Kate Atkinson Thought Girl Copy Share Image
“Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.” — kate atkinson Fire Copy Share Image
“... the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.” — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
“Maybe this was why people filled their house with stinking cats, so they didn't notice that they were alone, so they wouldn't… — Kate Atkinson Cats 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
“In the end we all arrive at the same place. I hardly see that it matters how we get there." It seemed… — Kate Atkinson Point Copy Share Image
“I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?” — Kate Atkinson Human race Copy Share Image
“After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world,… — Kate Atkinson Obsolete Copy Share Image
“You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.” — Kate Atkinson Little Words Copy Share Image
Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and… — Kate Atkinson Acquires Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for… — Kate Atkinson Artificial 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
“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
“misquote Edmund Burke rather than Milton. All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for… — Kate Atkinson Evil Copy Share Image
In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. — Kate Atkinson Belief Copy Share Image
They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't… — Kate Atkinson Heart 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 Future Copy Share Image
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