373 Quotes by Kate Atkinson

It was like dealing with Rasputin, not a middle-aged woman from Wolverhampton.

I have no idea how to love another human being unless it’s by tearing them to pieces and eating them.

Don’t let your imagination run away with you, Miss Armstrong. But why would you not when the reality was so awful? And that was that. Juliet’s war.

It just went to show, you never knew what you were going to feel until you felt it.

What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.

Another day where nothing has happened, he thought. That was a good thing, he reminded himself. What was the Chinese curse? May you live in interesting times.

There were different categories of friends in Vince’s opinion. Golf friends, work friends, old school friends, shipboard friends... but friend friends were harder to come by.

It was the war, Juliet thought, remembering the photograph of the flamingo’s creased wife, it has made refugees of us all.

Don’t you wonder sometimes,′ Ursula said. ‘If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had died at birth, or if someone had kidnapped him as a baby and brought him up in – I don’t know, say, a Quaker household – surely things would be different.