“ Do not equate nationalism with patriotism... Nationalism is the first step on the road to Fascism. Kate Atkinson
“ As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow. Kate Atkinson
“ And the English soul, if it resided anywhere, was surely in some unheroic back garden—a patch of lawn, a bed of roses, a row of runner beans. Kate Atkinson
“ All the men in the family went to the school, his Hampstead grandmother said (his only grandmother, Sylvie’s mother having died long ago), as if it were a law, written down in ancient times. Teddy sup… Kate Atkinson
“ About the Book He had 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. Kate Atkinson
“ ‘Do not equate nationalism with patriotism,’ Perry warned Juliet. ‘Nationalism is the first step on the road to Fascism.’) Kate Atkinson
“ Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress… Kate Atkinson
“ Who is to say which of these is real and which a fiction? In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. Kate Atkinson
“ What if she were simply to open her bedroom window and throw herself out, head first? Would she really be able to come back and start again? Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, a… Kate Atkinson
“ The dogs had got into the graveyard and were now moving like Hoovers across the ground, their noses down, their tails up, their small dog brains consumed with the idea of uncharted territory and a tho… Kate Atkinson
“ Misquote Edmund Burke rather than Milton. All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing. Kate Atkinson
“ […] but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment. Kate Atkinson
“ [T]he parent-child relationship was one way, you gave them all your love and they were under no obligation to pay a penny back. Of course, if they did love you then that was the icing on the cake with… Kate Atkinson
“ You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them. Kate Atkinson
“ You couldn’t necessarily judge a woman by the man she slept with. (Or could you?) Eva Kate Atkinson
“ Why make it easy when you could make it as difficult for yourself as possible? She was a woman, so, technically speaking, she could do anything. Kate Atkinson
“ We’re all Bolsheviks now, Izzie said blithely. And at my table! Hugh said and laughed. Kate Atkinson
“ Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness... At work, they regarded her as a person apart... They imagined there must be more to her. A dark horse. And still waters run deep. They would be disap… Kate Atkinson
“ Tracy thought she must be missing something, it felt like the same world as ever to her. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, kids everywhere falling through the cracks. The Victorians wo… Kate Atkinson
“ There were other war veterans in the neighborhood, visible thanks to their limps or missing limbs. All those unclaimed arms and legs lost in the fields of Flanders - Ursula imagined them pushing roots… Kate Atkinson
