“And I can't cry, I don't even want to cry. My tears would never do justice to this loss.” — Kate Atkinson 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
“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.” — Kate Atkinson Irish accent Copy Share Image
You can step in the same river but the water will always be new. — Kate Atkinson River Copy Share Image
“... the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.” — Kate Atkinson Crazily 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
“Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,” Klara said. “If we all had it there would be no history to write about.” — Kate Atkinson Hindsight Copy Share Image
“Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take… — Kate Atkinson 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
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door. — Kate Atkinson 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
She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty. — Kate Atkinson Doubt 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
“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
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Twittering just seemed to be people telling other people what they were doing--getting in the shower, making coffee. Who on earth wanted… — Kate Atkinson Babble Copy Share Image
“If Richard had lived, perhaps... but one cannot look backwards, only forwards. What has passed has passed for ever. What is it… — Kate Atkinson River Copy Share Image
“Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson Autobiography Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing was much more productive than people thought; Jackson often had his most profound insights when he appeared to be entirely… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future. — Kate Atkinson Change Copy Share Image
“They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge.” — Kate Atkinson Death Copy Share Image
“Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“She... applied makeup, enough to have made an effort, not enough to be blatantly a woman...” — Kate Atkinson Makeup Copy Share Image
“Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing” — Kate Atkinson Suffragette Copy Share Image
I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I… — Kate Atkinson 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
“We're just cogs in a machine really, aren't we?" Miss Fawcett said to her and Ursula said, "But remember, without the cog… — Kate Atkinson Computers 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
“... the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.” — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
“Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.” — kate atkinson Fire Copy Share Image
“I always thought the girl in that picture had the look of a frog about her,” Nancy said, thinking, I look enigmatic… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some… — Kate Atkinson Bird Copy Share Image
“The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with… — Kate Atkinson Heart Copy Share Image
“She...wanted no one—apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.” — Kate Atkinson Fictional-men 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 Past Copy Share Image
