Quotes by : Kate Atkinson

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

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great....

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

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

And who thought it was a good idea to rent bicycles to Italian adolescent language students? If hell....

Get down,' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering....

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

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

Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for....