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(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) — Kate Atkinson

The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD — Kate Atkinson

I, of course, am considered mad, bad and dangerous to know. — Kate Atkinson

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

feeling that always came with the rain and the dark. She'd just — Kate Atkinson

Now it would not be the geography of Empire that would make him, it would be the architecture of war. — Kate Atkinson

You walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living. — Kate Atkinson

Ursula declined, fearing enchantment. — Kate Atkinson

Ah, but the rich are different,' the footman said, 'they take a lot more looking after. — Kate Atkinson

Sometimes it takes just one good man — Kate Atkinson

Fat people weren't supposed to eat anything, but they were especially not supposed to eat confectionery, — Kate Atkinson

The more Viola forgot her mother, the more she missed her. — Kate Atkinson

... Angus had a "pretty normal childhood." Bertie had immediately mistrusted him. Nobody had a normal childhood. — Kate Atkinson

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is. — Kate Atkinson

Moira and the girls and they soon resumed their furtive — Kate Atkinson

I feel as if I'm waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson

Teddy found himself thinking what a decent human being his father had been, the best of all the family really. The grief caught him unawares. — Kate Atkinson

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

Shropshire, the fatlands of Gloucestershire, — 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 be in a very safe place. — Kate Atkinson

She ... applied makeup, enough to have made an effort, not enough to be blatantly a woman ... — Kate Atkinson

Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs. — Kate Atkinson

Dear God. When did language and meaning divorce each other and decide to go their separate ways? — Kate Atkinson

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

Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness. — Kate Atkinson

pointing. She was completely hopeless. — Kate Atkinson

How strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed. — Kate Atkinson

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel. — Kate Atkinson

There is a world outside these walls. — Kate Atkinson

Shop-bought cakes are a sign of sluttish housewifery. — Kate Atkinson

The mind is a fathomless mystery. — Kate Atkinson

That one way or another the Germans were tracking them from the — Kate Atkinson

He had stayed ... because something told him that this was the life that had to be lived out. — Kate Atkinson

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother. — Kate Atkinson

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

We're all Bolsheviks now," Izzie said blithely. "And at my table!" Hugh said and laughed. — Kate Atkinson

Anthroposophy, spiritualism. Everyone needs to make sense — Kate Atkinson

First things were good, last things not so much so. — Kate Atkinson

What's life worth if you can't have some fun? — Kate Atkinson

That was the moment at which he realized that he had possibly become unhinged. What did it matter? The whole world was unhinged. — Kate Atkinson

I'm not myself," she said and then laughed maniacally, "but God knows who I am. — Kate Atkinson

Time was a thief and Jackson felt he gained a small triumph by stealing back some of the early hours — Kate Atkinson

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson

Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death. — Kate Atkinson

Scars heal," Sylvie said. "Even the worst ones. — Kate Atkinson

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy. — Kate Atkinson

I heard someone say once that hindsight was a wonderful thing, that without it there would be no history. — Kate Atkinson

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

Needs must, and so on. — Kate Atkinson

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

The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with Benjamin Cole. — Kate Atkinson

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered? — Kate Atkinson

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

... she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return. — Kate Atkinson

They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge. — Kate Atkinson

Disengaging from the rat race Jackson — Kate Atkinson

Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let's face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman. — Kate Atkinson

One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs. — Kate Atkinson

Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love. — Kate Atkinson

... the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days. — Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes. — Harlan Coben

I think I would rather just live my life," Teddy said, "not make an artifice of it. — Kate Atkinson

Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past. She — Kate Atkinson

History is all about 'what ifs — Kate Atkinson

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

Harold?' 'Poor man, I suppose — Kate Atkinson

You couldn't necessarily judge a woman by the man she slept with. (Or could you?) — Kate Atkinson

'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

Butter was plastered on to the roll with no regard for the hard labor of the cow — Kate Atkinson

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced. — Kate Atkinson

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

She no longer recognized herself, she thought. She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back. — Kate Atkinson

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve. — Kate Atkinson

Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead. — Kate Atkinson

Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire. — Kate Atkinson

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.' — Kate Atkinson

I always thought the girl in that picture had the look of a frog about her," Nancy said, thinking, I look enigmatic because I'm dying. "Isn't — Kate Atkinson

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being. — Kate Atkinson

do a typing and shorthand — Kate Atkinson

It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong. — Kate Atkinson

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

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end. — Kate Atkinson

Yes, Mrs. Todd, a bonny, bouncing baby girl." Sylvie thought — Kate Atkinson

I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output. — Paula Hawkins

Time is construct, in relativity every thing flows, no past or present, only the now. — Kate Atkinson

It was extraordinary how far you could go in London and barely touch a pavement or cross a road. — Kate Atkinson

They were lucky. They'd been given history. — Kate Atkinson

It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was. — Kate Atkinson

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

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am. — Kate Atkinson

(" 'Sacrifice,' " Sylvie said, "is a word that makes people feel noble about slaughter.") But, — Kate Atkinson

He never imagined, when his daughter was small and infinitely, eternally lovable, that he would ever develop a combative relationship with her. — Kate Atkinson

Was there a store somewhere full of unwanted secrets? — Kate Atkinson

Trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world. — Kate Atkinson

Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult. — Kate Atkinson

Those fateful words We are now at war with Germany, and for several hours felt strangely numb. She tried to phone Pamela — Kate Atkinson

sequiturs. 'That's got nothing to do with it,' Teddy — Kate Atkinson

He was born a politician.
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become. — Kate Atkinson

Was there a poet who hadn't written about skylarks? — Kate Atkinson

And when all else is gone, Art remains. — Kate Atkinson