373 Quotes by Kate Atkinson

If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)

They were turning into Wallace and Gromit, he could feel it. Soon he'd be calling the dog "lad" and sharing cheese and crackers with it. There were worse things, he supposed.

When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.

She was one of those girls who wasn't entirely convinced that food was necessary for survival - anything more robust than a strawberry yoghurt made her anxious.

Slattern! What a wonderful new word. 'Slattern,' I murmur appreciatively to Patricia.'Yes, slattern,' Bunty says firmly. 'That's what she is.''Not a slut like you then?' Patricia says very quietly. Loud enough to be heard, but too quiet to be believed.

i will be the hunter, not the hunted. diana, not the stag. the arrow, not the bow.

he had a name, too - a good patriotic name. cry god for harry, england, and saint george.

How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs," she said to Ursula.

This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing.