Kate Atkinson - Life After Life (2013)

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

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Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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