"Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a……" — Kate Atkinson
"Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve."
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49 Quotes by Kate Atkinson
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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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They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and…
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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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