373 Quotes by Kate Atkinson

Ursula tried to remember what her own last words to her father had been. A nonchalant ‘See you later,’ she concluded. The final irony. ‘We never know when it will be the last time,’ she said...

The blame generally has to fall somewhere, Miss Armstrong. Women and the Jews tend to be first in line, unfortunately.

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn’t even have the strength to feel guilty.

She felt as if she had been on the outside of happiness her whole life.

She was wearing an aggressive three-piece outfit that was probably very expensive but had the kind of pattern you would get if you cut up the flags of several obscure countries and then gave them to a blind pigeon to stick back together again.

That was how you lost people, a little carelessness and they just slipped through your fingers.

Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird’s heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted, Fox Corner was an Arcadian dream.

The more Viola forgot her mother, the more she missed her.

What a good husband you are”, Nancy said afterward, “always taking your wife’s side rather thn your mother’s.” “It’s the side of reason I am on”, Teddy said, “It just so happens that that’s where you’re always to be found and my mother rarely.