First-sentence Quote by Kate Atkinson Download Open image ““A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body.”” — Kate Atkinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare First-sentence
“In this ever changing world, there are few things that have remained constant for me. The chance of hooking a nice trout still excites… — M.A. Bookout Copy Share Image
“The old drunk told me about trout fishing. When he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they were a… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“The trout is still with me, as are my memories. The future is somewhere between these two forces, but it lives in mystery. The… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
“A man was fishing and caught a fish. The fish was so small he threw it back in the water and for the first… — Zen Story Copy Share Image
“the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sweet sixteen," Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. "Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you." Ursula still harbored the feeling that some… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Atkinson 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 did survive… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana… — Kate Atkinson 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
“If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. — Kate Atkinson 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 get to… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.” — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. There wasn't… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
