“Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two," she said.” — Kate Atkinson Babies 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
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Butter was plastered on to the roll with no regard for the hard labor of the cow” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“...but one cannot look backward, only forward. What has passed has passed forever.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death.” — Kate Atkinson Death Copy Share Image
“That was how you lost people, a little carelessness and they just slipped through your fingers.” — Kate Atkinson Carelessness Copy Share Image
“A simple acceptance of what comes to us, regarding it as neither bad nor good. “Werde, der du bist, as he would… — Kate Atkinson Acceptance Copy Share Image
“...how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice,’ ” he remembered Sylvie saying, “is a word that makes people feel noble about slaughter.” “These” — Kate Atkinson Sacrifice Copy Share Image
He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has… — Kate Atkinson Baby Copy Share Image
“She supposed she was a little cog in the big wheel of Empire. “Nothing wrong with being a cog,” Maurice said, himself… — Kate Atkinson Cogs Copy Share Image
'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it? — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.' — Kate Atkinson 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 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 Common language Copy Share Image
“There were other war veterans in the neighborhood, visible thanks to their limps or missing limbs. All those unclaimed arms and legs… — Kate Atkinson Peace Copy Share Image
“He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he… — Kate Atkinson Life Copy Share Image
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I suppose a better sister would have set about weaving him a shirt from nettles and throwing it over his furred-over body… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow… — Kate Atkinson 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 Copy Share Image
“She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay… — Kate Atkinson Acts of kindness 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 Copy Share Image
“From the open French windows Sylvie watched Maurice erecting a makeshift tennis net, which mostly seemed to involve whacking everything in sight… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Olivia was her only beautiful child. Julia, with her dark curls and snub nose, was pretty but her character wasn't, Sylvia ---… — Kate Atkinson Children Copy Share Image
“She had had affairs over the years ... but she had never been pregnant, never been a mother or a wife and… — Kate Atkinson Heart Copy Share Image
“Fox Corner - that's what we should call the house. No one else has a house with that name and shouldn't that… — Kate Atkinson Corner 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
“He had taken a few days' leave from his army training and they had taken refuge in the Charing Cross Hotel while… — Kate Atkinson Fitness Copy Share Image
Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about. — Kate Atkinson Hindsight Copy Share Image
“Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.” — Kate Atkinson Faith Copy Share Image
Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person. — Kate Atkinson Heart Copy Share Image
“He was officially a lunatic, she decided. Strangely, that didn't make him less attractive.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.” — Kate Atkinson Change Copy Share Image
“How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
