If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much. — Kate Atkinson Damnation Copy Share Image
“Stella was one of Mr Bullock’s ‘chorus girls’ and confessed (readily) to being a ‘striptease artiste’ but Mr Armitage the opera singer… — Kate Atkinson Intolerance Copy Share Image
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book. — Kate Atkinson Book Copy Share Image
“In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances.… — Kate Atkinson Crime Copy Share Image
“How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip… — Kate Atkinson Blink of an eye 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
“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
Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to… — Kate Atkinson Away from you 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
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
“She... applied makeup, enough to have made an effort, not enough to be blatantly a woman...” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body.” — Kate Atkinson First-sentence Copy Share Image
It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a… — Kate Atkinson Baby 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
“The triumph of the human spirit,” the new nursing sister said, new enough to talk about “positive outcomes” and “enhancement programmes”—emollient management-speak,… — Kate Atkinson Health 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
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
“A 'career woman,'" Sylvie said, as if the two words had no place in the same sentence. "A spinster," she added, contemplating… — Kate Atkinson Bad thing Copy Share Image
“Louise was an urbanite, she preferred the gut-thrilling sound of an emergency siren slicing through the night to the noise of country… — Kate Atkinson City Copy Share Image
“Nor, says Nora, do we want commonplace tales of hausfrau Angst, of the woman heroically making over her life with a handsome… — Kate Atkinson Children Copy Share Image
“Good news?’ Gloria queried. She wondered if Emily was pregnant again (was that good news?), so she was taken aback when Emily… — Kate Atkinson Good news 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
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
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