Kate Atkinson Short Quotes

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

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You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

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Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.

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

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Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

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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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Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

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If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

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

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She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

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The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

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

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She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

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What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

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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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You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

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As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

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Jennifer had never liked the pain of remembering what had happened, but for Theo it was the pain that kept Laura alive in his memory. He was afraid that if it ever began to heal she would disappear.

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