Kate Atkinson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD
Pamela, even at a distance, was the voice of her conscience, but then it was very easy to have a conscience from a distance.
She ... wanted no one - apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.
Home ... wasn't Egerton Gardens, wasn't even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past.
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.
People who live on their own do tend to witter. We live without restraint, verbal at any rate.' Nigel
Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative.
She prayed now, with desperate conviction but no faith, and she suspected it made no difference either way. When
She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
Normally she restricts herself to a very narrow spectrum of emotions (irritable, irritated, irritating).
Viola felt as if she spent her life wading through a sea of ignorance, shallow but without a shore in sight.
The last thing she wanted was people looking for her. No, that wasn't true
the last thing she wanted was people finding her.
the last thing she wanted was people finding her.
Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character.
Being kind modified the extraordinary, alarming otherness of him, which was threefold - large, male and American.
[She] went around with a beatific smile on her face that could be very irritating if you yourself weren't feeling beatific.
Sometimes Teddy wondered if everyone had done well out of the war except for those who had fought in it.
a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. Ursula
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.
How can I help you?
and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.
But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.
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.
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.
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.
It was possible, she thought, that she had won the race to reach the end of civilization. There was no prize. Obviously.
If there was one thing she found more tedious than thinking about politics it was talking about politics.
Long lazy days like these will never come again in your life. You think they will but they won't.' -Sylvie
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.
a backdrop for the stories we must tell.
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.
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.
'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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.
I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?
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.
Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women?
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 heard someone say once that hindsight was a wonderful thing, that without it there would be no history.
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.
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.