373 Quotes by Kate Atkinson

How quickly life could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

I loved him so much. Love him so much. I don’t know why I use the past tense. It’s not as if love dies with the beloved.

I run to death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday.

Everything changes and nothing remains still. PLATO, Cratylus.

No woman was ever truly safe. It didn’t matter if you were as tough as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection or Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 because wherever you went there were men.

Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative.

The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination.

Laika,” she would say, “the first dog in space. She died of heat and stress after a few hours. She was rescued from an animal center, she must have thought she was going to a home, to a family, and instead they sent her to the loneliest death in the world.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win is for enough good women to do nothing.