“ The grain had entered the shell (Sylvie’s own metaphoric stance) and the pearl that would be Edward Beresford Todd began to grow until he was revealed into the sunshine that came before the Great War… Kate Atkinson
“ She could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk. Kate Atkinson
“ Now Viola could see the value of sounding chirpy even when you didn’t feel like it. You were more likely to get what you wanted, for one thing. Kate Atkinson
“ If there was one thing she found more tedious than thinking about politics it was talking about politics. And Kate Atkinson
“ He inadvertently opened the door to a storeroom on the station and found it full of aircrew uniforms on hangers. He thought they must be replacement issue until he looked more closely and saw the brev… Kate Atkinson
“ Eye for an eye, Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?) Kate Atkinson
“ You can’t change the past, only the future, and the only place you could change the future was in the present. That’s what they said. Kate Atkinson
“ Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness. Kate Atkinson
“ What if this present were the world's last night' she said. 'The word present makes all the difference, don't you think? It makes it seem as if one's somehow in the thick of it, which we are, rather t… Kate Atkinson
“ What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courag… Kate Atkinson
“ What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people? Sylvie said. Kate Atkinson
“ Viola was a good reader, a bookworm—a phrase she hated. How can a worm be a nice thing to be? Viola said. I would be a worm, Nancy thought, if that was the only existence on offer, and then laughed at… Kate Atkinson
“ Ursula found it very odd to think that up above them there were German bombers being flown by men who, essentially, were just like Teddy. They weren’t evil, they were just doing what had been asked of… Kate Atkinson
“ Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve. Kate Atkinson
“ Untouched by morning and untouched by noon, sleep the meek members of the Resurrection, rafter of satin and roof of stone.’ Emily Dickinson. Kate Atkinson
“ Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back. Kate Atkinson
