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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.

Kate Atkinson

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.

Tags: alternate universe, ending, heartbreaking, heartwrenching, imagination, kate atkinson, last lines, sad, tearjerker, teddy todd

From here he could see the farmer's daughter in the yard, feeding the geese. Wasn't there a nursery rhyme in there somewhere? No, he was thinking of the farmer's wife, wasn't he?--cutting off tails wi...

Kate Atkinson

From here he could see the farmer's daughter in the yard, feeding the geese. Wasn't there a nursery rhyme in there somewhere? No, he was thinking of the farmer's wife, wasn't he?--cutting off tails wi...

About Author
Kate Atkinson may refer to:

Kate Atkinson (actress) (born 1972), Australian actress
Kate Atkinson (writer) (born 1951), English writer

Across the world millions of lives are altered by the absence of the dead, but three members of Teddy's last crew—Clifford the bomb-aimer, Fraser, the injured pilot, and Charlie, the tail-end Charlie—...

Kate Atkinson

Across the world millions of lives are altered by the absence of the dead, but three members of Teddy's last crew—Clifford the bomb-aimer, Fraser, the injured pilot, and Charlie, the tail-end Charlie—...

Tags: alternate universe, butterfly effect, dead, ending, fractals, kate atkinson, ripple effect, survivors, twist ending

Harold?’ ‘Poor man, I suppose

Kate Atkinson

Harold?’ ‘Poor man, I suppose

She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay the ferryman. The air rippled and shimmered. Time narrowed to a pinpoint. It was about to...

Kate Atkinson

She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay the ferryman. The air rippled and shimmered. Time narrowed to a pinpoint. It was about to...

Tags: beautiful, death, dying, edward thomas, gerard manley hopkins, john keats, kate atkinson, literary allusions, literary, william blake

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

Kate Atkinson

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

Tags: elements, german, germans, progress, ugly

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agr...

Kate Atkinson

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agr...

Tags: feminism, marriage, single, spinster

Havisham.

Kate Atkinson

Havisham.

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!

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!

Tags: alternate universe, ending, fiction, fifth wall, kate atkinson, twist ending

She prayed now, with desperate conviction but no faith, and she suspected it made no difference either way. When

Kate Atkinson

She prayed now, with desperate conviction but no faith, and she suspected it made no difference either way. When

He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might be a good thing to have a universal language, as Latin had once been. Oh, yes, M...

Kate Atkinson

He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might be a good thing to have a universal language, as Latin had once been. Oh, yes, M...

Tags: esperanto, language, universal language, utopianism

It was the kind of summer evening that made Ursula want to be alone. 'Oh,' Izzie said, 'You're at an age when a girl is simply by the sublime.' Ursula wasn't sure what she meant ('No one is ever sure...

Kate Atkinson

It was the kind of summer evening that made Ursula want to be alone. 'Oh,' Izzie said, 'You're at an age when a girl is simply by the sublime.' Ursula wasn't sure what she meant ('No one is ever sure...

Tags: future, summer, teenage girl, teenage years, time

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.

Kate Atkinson

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.

Tags: nineteenth century, reading

There are some Buddhist philosophers (a branch referred to as Zen) who say that sometimes a bad thing happens to prevent a worse thing happening,

Kate Atkinson

There are some Buddhist philosophers (a branch referred to as Zen) who say that sometimes a bad thing happens to prevent a worse thing happening,

It was war itself that was evil, not men.

Kate Atkinson

It was war itself that was evil, not men.

' he said. You had to wonder about the French, how they could make a simple 'sorry' sound so extreme and forlorn.

Kate Atkinson

' he said. You had to wonder about the French, how they could make a simple 'sorry' sound so extreme and forlorn.

Tags: forlorn, french, humor, language, sorry

If Bertie was a god (a favourite fantasy), she would be manufacturing things there was a shortage of - bees, tigers, dormice - not flip-flops and phone covers and toothpaste.

Kate Atkinson

If Bertie was a god (a favourite fantasy), she would be manufacturing things there was a shortage of - bees, tigers, dormice - not flip-flops and phone covers and toothpaste.

Tags: dormice, flipflops, god, phone covers, tigers, toothpaste

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

Kate Atkinson

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

Tags: gratitude, ingratitude, quid pro quo

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 ad...

Kate Atkinson

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 ad...

Tags: esp, senses

Seven million German dead, including the five hundred thousand killed by the Allied bombing campaign. The sixty million dead overall of the Second World War, including eleven million murdered in the H...

Kate Atkinson

Seven million German dead, including the five hundred thousand killed by the Allied bombing campaign. The sixty million dead overall of the Second World War, including eleven million murdered in the H...