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Kate Atkinson quotes: (although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) (although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
Kate Atkinson quotes: The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD
Kate Atkinson quotes: Pamela, even at a distance, was the voice of her conscience, but then it was very easy to have a conscience from a distance. Pamela, even at a distance, was the voice of her conscience, but then it was very easy to have a conscience from a distance.
Kate Atkinson quotes: She ... wanted no one - apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable. She ... wanted no one - apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Home ... wasn't Egerton Gardens, wasn't even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past. Home ... wasn't Egerton Gardens, wasn't even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Sometimes it takes just one good man Sometimes it takes just one good man
Kate Atkinson quotes: I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front. I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
Kate Atkinson quotes: People who live on their own do tend to witter. We live without restraint, verbal at any rate.' Nigel People who live on their own do tend to witter. We live without restraint, verbal at any rate.' Nigel
Kate Atkinson quotes: Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative. Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative.
Kate Atkinson quotes: She prayed now, with desperate conviction but no faith, and she suspected it made no difference either way. When She prayed now, with desperate conviction but no faith, and she suspected it made no difference either way. When
Kate Atkinson quotes: She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty. She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing. Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
Kate Atkinson quotes: This was beauty too. Was there anything in nature that wasn't? This was beauty too. Was there anything in nature that wasn't?
Kate Atkinson quotes: Normally she restricts herself to a very narrow spectrum of emotions (irritable, irritated, irritating). Normally she restricts herself to a very narrow spectrum of emotions (irritable, irritated, irritating).
Kate Atkinson quotes: Viola felt as if she spent her life wading through a sea of ignorance, shallow but without a shore in sight. Viola felt as if she spent her life wading through a sea of ignorance, shallow but without a shore in sight.
Kate Atkinson quotes: A woman should be a comfort and a relief, a restful pillow for the weary head. A woman should be a comfort and a relief, a restful pillow for the weary head.
Kate Atkinson quotes: The "eat" part was easy. The praying and loving were harder. The "eat" part was easy. The praying and loving were harder.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Time isn't circular," she said to Dr. Kellet. "It's like a ... palimpsest. Time isn't circular," she said to Dr. Kellet. "It's like a ... palimpsest.
Kate Atkinson quotes: The last thing she wanted was people looking for her. No, that wasn't truethe last thing she wanted was people finding her. The last thing she wanted was people looking for her. No, that wasn't true
the last thing she wanted was people finding her.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character. Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Daddy said he would rather we were alive and cowards than dead and heroes. Daddy said he would rather we were alive and cowards than dead and heroes.
Kate Atkinson quotes: strangers? Millie's swan song on the stage, the last strangers? Millie's swan song on the stage, the last
Kate Atkinson quotes: Being kind modified the extraordinary, alarming otherness of him, which was threefold - large, male and American. Being kind modified the extraordinary, alarming otherness of him, which was threefold - large, male and American.
Kate Atkinson quotes: [She] went around with a beatific smile on her face that could be very irritating if you yourself weren't feeling beatific. [She] went around with a beatific smile on her face that could be very irritating if you yourself weren't feeling beatific.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Sometimes Teddy wondered if everyone had done well out of the war except for those who had fought in it. Sometimes Teddy wondered if everyone had done well out of the war except for those who had fought in it.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Art is anything created by one person and enjoyed by another. Art is anything created by one person and enjoyed by another.
Kate Atkinson quotes: -by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds I've discovered so far). -by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds I've discovered so far).
Kate Atkinson quotes: Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book. Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
Kate Atkinson quotes: a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. Ursula a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. Ursula
Kate Atkinson quotes: Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person. Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Barrage balloons dotted the sky like blind whales bobbing around in the wrong element. Barrage balloons dotted the sky like blind whales bobbing around in the wrong element.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future. Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Much good may "honour" do them when they're dead Much good may "honour" do them when they're dead
Kate Atkinson quotes: There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky. There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky.
Kate Atkinson quotes: You said five little words to someoneHow can I help you?and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them. You said five little words to someone
How can I help you?
and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.
Kate Atkinson quotes: The only time you were safe was when you were dead. The only time you were safe was when you were dead.
Kate Atkinson quotes: The hospital. He was the youthful partner of an older doctor The hospital. He was the youthful partner of an older doctor
Kate Atkinson quotes: Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving. Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving.
Kate Atkinson quotes: So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements. So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.
Kate Atkinson quotes: But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life. But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Some might count sheep. Teddy counted the towns and cities he had tried to destroy, that had tried to destroy him. Perhaps they had succeeded. Some might count sheep. Teddy counted the towns and cities he had tried to destroy, that had tried to destroy him. Perhaps they had succeeded.
Kate Atkinson quotes: We're just cogs in a machine really, aren't we?" Miss Fawcett said to her and Ursula said, "But remember, without the cog there is no machine. We're just cogs in a machine really, aren't we?" Miss Fawcett said to her and Ursula said, "But remember, without the cog there is no machine.
Kate Atkinson quotes: It was one of those questions you couldn't ask in case he were to tell the truth. It was one of those questions you couldn't ask in case he were to tell the truth.
Kate Atkinson quotes: You did not need a God (Sylvie was an unconfessed atheist) to believe in sin. She You did not need a God (Sylvie was an unconfessed atheist) to believe in sin. She
Kate Atkinson quotes: ("An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?) ("An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)
Kate Atkinson quotes: He was part of the infinite. The tree and the rock and the water. The rising of the sun and the running of the deer. He was part of the infinite. The tree and the rock and the water. The rising of the sun and the running of the deer.
Kate Atkinson quotes: It was war itself that was evil, not men. It was war itself that was evil, not men.
Kate Atkinson quotes: It was possible, she thought, that she had won the race to reach the end of civilization. There was no prize. Obviously. It was possible, she thought, that she had won the race to reach the end of civilization. There was no prize. Obviously.
Kate Atkinson quotes: If there was one thing she found more tedious than thinking about politics it was talking about politics. If there was one thing she found more tedious than thinking about politics it was talking about politics.
Kate Atkinson quotes: She felt as if she had been on the outside of happiness her whole life. She felt as if she had been on the outside of happiness her whole life.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Just because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again. Just because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance. Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Long lazy days like these will never come again in your life. You think they will but they won't.' -Sylvie Long lazy days like these will never come again in your life. You think they will but they won't.' -Sylvie
Kate Atkinson quotes: sequiturs. 'That's got nothing to do with it,' Teddy sequiturs. 'That's got nothing to do with it,' Teddy
Kate Atkinson quotes: She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel. She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.
Kate Atkinson quotes: There is a world outside these walls. There is a world outside these walls.
Kate Atkinson quotes: The mind is a fathomless mystery. The mind is a fathomless mystery.
Kate Atkinson quotes: She ... applied makeup, enough to have made an effort, not enough to be blatantly a woman ... She ... applied makeup, enough to have made an effort, not enough to be blatantly a woman ...
Kate Atkinson quotes: I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am. I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all a backdrop for the stories we must tell. Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all
a backdrop for the stories we must tell.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Time is construct, in relativity every thing flows, no past or present, only the now. Time is construct, in relativity every thing flows, no past or present, only the now.
Kate Atkinson quotes: They were lucky. They'd been given history. They were lucky. They'd been given history.
Kate Atkinson quotes: It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was. It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was.
Kate Atkinson quotes: She was flawed, no longer intact. On the other hand, she felt as if she had been scourged clean. The past no longer weighed so heavily on the present. She was flawed, no longer intact. On the other hand, she felt as if she had been scourged clean. The past no longer weighed so heavily on the present.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world. Trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world.
Kate Atkinson quotes: It was funny because she thought of herself as a good team player, although sometimes she suspected that no one else on her team did. It was funny because she thought of herself as a good team player, although sometimes she suspected that no one else on her team did.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Was there a poet who hadn't written about skylarks? Was there a poet who hadn't written about skylarks?
Kate Atkinson quotes: And when all else is gone, Art remains. And when all else is gone, Art remains.
Kate Atkinson quotes: 'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it? 'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
Kate Atkinson quotes: Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love. Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
Kate Atkinson quotes: ... the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days. ... the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.
Kate Atkinson quotes: There's too much history in York, the past is so crowded that sometimes it feels as if there's no room for the living. There's too much history in York, the past is so crowded that sometimes it feels as if there's no room for the living.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Harold?' 'Poor man, I suppose Harold?' 'Poor man, I suppose
Kate Atkinson quotes: Disengaging from the rat race Jackson Disengaging from the rat race Jackson
Kate Atkinson quotes: I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think? I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?
Kate Atkinson quotes: Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve. Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire. Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.
Kate Atkinson quotes: If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much. If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back. Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.
Kate Atkinson quotes: He had seemed fierce and noble but in the end he was as disappointing as everyone else. He had seemed fierce and noble but in the end he was as disappointing as everyone else.
Kate Atkinson quotes: He missed having a wild green world on his doorstep - no rabbits or pheasants or badgers. He missed having a wild green world on his doorstep - no rabbits or pheasants or badgers.
Kate Atkinson quotes: let's face it, no one warned you about anything. let's face it, no one warned you about anything.
Kate Atkinson quotes: The past is what you take with you. The past is what you take with you.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women? Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women?
Kate Atkinson quotes: ('The mistake,' Sylvie said, 'is thinking that love equates with happiness.') ('The mistake,' Sylvie said, 'is thinking that love equates with happiness.')
Kate Atkinson quotes: The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, Must get on with the tea. Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, Must get on with the tea.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Nostalgia is predicated on something that never existed. Nostalgia is predicated on something that never existed.
Kate Atkinson quotes: What on earth was she doing with her life? Could she just get up and leave? What on earth was she doing with her life? Could she just get up and leave?
Kate Atkinson quotes: I'm a shadow of my former self, she announces. Vinny was a shadow to begin with, now she's a shadow of a shadow. I'm a shadow of my former self, she announces. Vinny was a shadow to begin with, now she's a shadow of a shadow.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Anthroposophy, spiritualism. Everyone needs to make sense Anthroposophy, spiritualism. Everyone needs to make sense
Kate Atkinson quotes: What's life worth if you can't have some fun? What's life worth if you can't have some fun?
Kate Atkinson quotes: Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death. Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death.
Kate Atkinson quotes: I heard someone say once that hindsight was a wonderful thing, that without it there would be no history. I heard someone say once that hindsight was a wonderful thing, that without it there would be no history.
Kate Atkinson quotes: You can't change the past, only the future, and the only place you could change the future was in the present. That's what they said. You can't change the past, only the future, and the only place you could change the future was in the present. That's what they said.
Kate Atkinson quotes: I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer. I would put my sisters. I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer. I would put my sisters.
Kate Atkinson quotes: I feel as if I'm waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. I feel as if I'm waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.
Kate Atkinson quotes: Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted, Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted,
Kate Atkinson quotes: Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must be in a very safe place. Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must be in a very safe place.

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