No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and… — Kate Atkinson Life Copy Share Image
(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) — Kate Atkinson Brain Copy Share Image
“She'd had a glimpse of a possible future-the pretty cottage, the garden full of flowers and vegetables, bread in the oven, a… — Kate Atkinson 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 Time Copy Share Image
“Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death.” — Kate Atkinson Death Copy Share Image
“In the prosperous household of Sylvie's childhood, Cook was called 'Cook' but Mrs Glover preferred 'Mrs Glover'. It made her irreplaceable. Sylvie… — Kate Atkinson Children 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 in god Copy Share Image
“Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?” — Kate Atkinson Scarlet Letter Copy Share Image
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd… — Kate Atkinson Absolution Copy Share Image
“I'm not myself," she said and then laughed maniacally, "but God knows who I am.” — Kate Atkinson God Copy Share Image
“There was always a second before the siren started when she was aware of a sound as yet unheard. It was like… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for… — Kate Atkinson Approach 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
“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
“This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went,… — Kate Atkinson Jackson-brodie 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 Copy Share Image
Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. — Kate Atkinson Earth 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 Copy Share Image
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson Abiding Copy Share Image
“Get down,' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire… — Kate Atkinson Family Copy Share Image
“He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might… — Kate Atkinson Esperanto Copy Share Image
“Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was… — Kate Atkinson Perception Copy Share Image
Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different. — Kate Atkinson Different Copy Share Image
“Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead.” — Kate Atkinson Life 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
