Kate Atkinson Quotes

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• Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
• Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but…
• She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they…
• They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out…
• Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there…
• Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
• Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than…
• The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
• I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
• In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
• Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we…
• I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional…
• I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would…
• Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren't we designed so that we can close our ears as well? (Perhaps because…
• When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled…
• If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.
• She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
• Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
• I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my…
• Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew…

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