Quotes by : Kate Atkinson

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

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

Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was - wasn't....

Popular versus literary—a false divide?

The past is what you take with you.

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital....

...and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something inreturn. Except for one's husband,....

Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need....

In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable....

The mind is a fathomless mystery.