Country-living Quote by Kate Atkinson

“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

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

“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

“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

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

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

— Kate Atkinson

“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

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

— Kate Atkinson

“The only way to stop the tears was to keep drinking the whisky.”

— Kate Atkinson

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

“What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.”

— Kate Atkinson

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,…

— Kate Atkinson