“ People who live on their own do tend to witter. We live without restraint, verbal at any rate.’ Nigel Kate Atkinson
“ Pamela, even at a distance, was the voice of her conscience, but then it was very easy to have a conscience from a distance. Kate Atkinson
“ Louise remembered that odd fluttery feeling of having a freewheeling baby inside you, independent and dependent at the same time, an eternal maternal dialectic. Kate Atkinson
“ I really such a terrible mother?’ she asked Bertie. ‘Why the past tense?’ Bertie said. Sow Kate Atkinson
“ How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him? Ursula wondered. It seemed to her that in the search for arguments against marriage the existence of Maurice presented the v… Kate Atkinson
“ Home’, it had struck her on the torturous drive back to London, wasn’t Egerton Gardens, wasn’t even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past. Kate Atkinson
“ He loved his wife and daughter. It was perhaps a stalwart affection rather than a magnificent obsession, but nonetheless he didn't doubt that if called upon to do so he would sacrifice his own life in… Kate Atkinson
“ He likes women, children, dogs, really what can you fault?’ Pamela wrote. ‘It’s just a shame he’s a dictator with no respect for the law or common humanity. Kate Atkinson
“ He has been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future. Kate Atkinson
“ Each reported on a myriad others, filaments in an evangelistic web of treachery that stretched across the country. Kate Atkinson
“ Before the beginning is the void and the void belongs in neither time nor space and is therefore beyond our imagination.Nothing will come of nothing unless it's the beginning of the world. This is how… Kate Atkinson
“ And then. Astonishing. Again. As she was skipping up the back stairs on her way to the attic bedroom to fetch something, something innocent - a book, a handkerchief, afterwards she would never remembe… Kate Atkinson
“ And I can't cry, I don't even want to cry. My tears would never do justice to this loss. Kate Atkinson
“ All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing. Kate Atkinson
“ After that Sylvie made sure they all went to the swimming baths in town and took lessons, from an ex-major in the Boer War who barked orders at them until they were too frightened to sink. Kate Atkinson
“ A 'career woman,' Sylvie said, as if the two words had no place in the same sentence. A spinster, she added, contemplating the word. Ursula wondered why her mother was working so hard to rile her. Per… Kate Atkinson
“ An eye for an eye, Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?) Kate Atkinson
