373 Quotes by Kate Atkinson

And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.

The mind is a fathomless mystery.

Get down,' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire family was wiped out and she could start again.)

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's.

...it had probably been a long enough life. Yet suddenly it all seemed like an illusion, a dream that had happened to someone else. What an odd thing existence was.

Butter was plastered on to the roll with no regard for the hard labor of the cow

O passado é aquilo que transportamos connosco