Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love. — Kate Atkinson Gratitude Copy Share Image
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy. — Kate Atkinson 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
“The only way to stop the tears was to keep drinking the whisky.” — Kate Atkinson Tears Copy Share Image
“He was officially a lunatic, she decided. Strangely, that didn't make him less attractive.” — 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
“she appeared in the doorway of his study and placidly announced she was leaving him. "It's you, not me," she said.” — Kate Atkinson Divorce-humor 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
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 Copy Share Image
“she could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Fine,’ she said, using the universal Scottish word for every state of being from ‘I’m dying in anguish’ to ‘I’m experiencing euphoric… — Kate Atkinson Death Copy Share Image
“common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.” — Kate Atkinson Common language Copy Share Image
“I don't actually live here," Reggie said. "Who does live here then?" "Ms. MacDonald, except that she doesn't because she's dead. Everyone's… — Kate Atkinson Life 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
The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard… — Kate Atkinson 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
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
“There was always a second before the siren started when she was aware of a sound as yet unheard. It was like… — Kate Atkinson Siren 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
“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 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
“It was the kind of summer evening that made Ursula want to be alone. 'Oh,' Izzie said, 'You're at an age when… — Kate Atkinson Coming of age Copy Share Image
“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and… — Kate Atkinson Fantasy Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.” — Kate Atkinson Faith Copy Share Image
“Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death.” — Kate Atkinson Death 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
Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person. — Kate Atkinson Heart 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
