Kate Atkinson Quotes - Page 2

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• Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Would Be, Wonderful

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• 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

  Clouds, Sky, Snow

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.170, Macmillan

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• I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

  Kate Atkinson

  Thinking, Catholic, Would Be

  "Emotionally weird? Moi?". Interview with Kim Bunce, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2000.

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• He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

  Kate Atkinson

  Baby, Politician, Born

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• I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

  Kate Atkinson

  Thinking, Mad

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Human Croquet: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan

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• My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

  Kate Atkinson

  Father, School, Class

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• It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

  Kate Atkinson

  Life, Impossible, Ends

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.201, Random House

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• She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

  Kate Atkinson

  Mother, Doubt, Guilty

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.37, Random House

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• When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.

  Kate Atkinson

  Beautiful, Morning, Cutting

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• It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

  Kate Atkinson

  Yesterday, Long, Long Time

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.546, Random House

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• Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

  Kate Atkinson

  Feminist, Awkward, Feminism

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• Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Firsts, Said

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• Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

  Kate Atkinson

  Book, Thinking, Giving

  "Kate Atkinson tells Hay festival she'd rather not be a published author" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.

  Kate Atkinson

  Girl, Vocabulary, Emotion

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.135, Random House

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• Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.

  Kate Atkinson

  Normal, Persons, Happenings

  Kate Atkinson (2008). “When will there be good news?”, Transworld Pub

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• Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.

  Kate Atkinson

  Reading, Reading Novels, Novel

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• Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

  Kate Atkinson

  Different, Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

  Kate Atkinson

  Mystery, Cases, Knows

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• 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 courage that most people didn't have.

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  Live Life, Hands, People

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• 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

  Children, Reading, Reality

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• Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

  Kate Atkinson

  Rocks, Self, Cells

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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• 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

  Thieves, Way, Away From You

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• (although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

  Kate Atkinson

  Brain, Half, Existential

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• The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).

  Kate Atkinson

  Cheerful, Would Be, Letters

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.144, Random House

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• Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

  Kate Atkinson

  Secret, Grew Up, Amelia

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