"They said love made you strong, but in……" — Kate Atkinson
"They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces."
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49 Quotes by Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson has 49 quotes on this site.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely…
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Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics…
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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
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Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some…
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The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
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I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
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In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
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Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a…
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I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.…
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I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to…
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More Heart Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
— Pietro Aretino
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I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can…
— Alexis Arguello
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It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want,…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
— Lance Armstrong
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
— Francis of Assisi
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It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
— Mary Astell
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help…
— Rodney Atkins
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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