373 Quotes by Kate Atkinson

Was there a poet who hadn't written about skylarks?

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

A simple acceptance of what comes to us, regarding it as neither bad nor good.“Werde, der du bist, as he would have it,” Dr Kellet continued ... “It means become who you are,” he said.

...and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something in return. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.

I suppose a better sister would have set about weaving him a shirt from nettles and throwing it over his furred-over body so that he could be released from his enchantment and resume his human form. I give him some cat food instead.

Ah, I know," Bridget said. "For sure, you have the sixth sense." Mrs. Glover, wrestling with the plum pudding, snorted her disapproval. She was of the opinion that five senses were too many, let alone adding on another.

The gods were on the point of giving up when Brahma said, 'I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. he will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is already within.

was there a store somewhere full of unwanted secrets?

Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.