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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,
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Shropshire, the fatlands of Gloucestershire,
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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
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
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.
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That one way or another the Germans were tracking them from the
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He had stayed ... because something told him that this was the life that had to be lived out.
— 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.
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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
Time was a thief and Jackson felt he gained a small triumph by stealing back some of the early hours
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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 thing.
— Kate Atkinson
Scars heal," Sylvie said. "Even the worst ones.
— 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.
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How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?
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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.
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... she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return.
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They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge.
— Kate Atkinson
Disengaging from the rat race Jackson
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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
Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past. She
— Kate Atkinson
History is all about 'what ifs
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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
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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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
Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.
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Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.'
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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.
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do a typing and shorthand
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It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong.
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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
(" '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
Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult.
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Those fateful words We are now at war with Germany, and for several hours felt strangely numb. She tried to phone Pamela
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sequiturs. 'That's got nothing to do with it,' Teddy
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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