373 Quotes by Kate Atkinson

He caught the look on her face, a mixture of distaste and confusion which eventually resolved into something more cryptic. Women usually needed to be acquainted with him a little longer before he saw that expression on their faces.

Later, when she understood that it was the last time they would all be together, she wished she had paid more attention.

He could hardly beat them up, they were still – technically – children and he preferred to restrict his acts of violence to people old enough to fight for their country.

It’s been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

I’ve always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn’t know, and with ‘Case Histories’ I just decide to make that more up-front.

Right up until the end, Victor’s mind had been as methodical as an efficient library, whereas Amelia felt that hers was more like the cupboard under the stair where ancient hockey sticks were shoved in beside broken Hoovers and boxes of old Christmas decorations, and the one thing you knew was in there – a five-amp fuse, a tin of tan shoe polish, a Phillips screwdriver – would almost certainly be the one thing you couldn’t lay your hands on.

Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, “Must get on with the tea.

There’s too much history in York, the past is so crowded that sometimes it feels as if there’s no room for the living.

People always said they wanted the truth, but really they were perfectly content with a facsimile.