Quotes by : Kate Atkinson

Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song....

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

They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart....

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.

What does it matter what people do? At the end of the day we're all dead.

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

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she....

Oh, man, ‘the nursery,’ ” Dominic said, “what a hell-hole. If I had kids I’d give them the....

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely....

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