“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“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, quote from Life After Life
“Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“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, quote from Life After Life
“She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Become such as you are, having learned what that is.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie."
"Because life is an adventure, of course."
"I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“We cannot turn away,” Miss Woolf told her, “we must get on with our job and we must bear witness.” What did that mean, Ursula wondered. “It means,” Miss Woolf said, “that we must remember these people when we are safely in the future.”
“And if we are killed?”
“Then others must remember us.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,” Klara said. “If we all had it there would be no history to write about.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“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, quote from Life After Life
“All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win is for enough good women to do nothing.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“...but one cannot look backward, only forward. What has passed has passed forever.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Scars heal,” Sylvie said. “Even the worst ones.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Her heart swelled with the high holiness of it all. Imminence was all around. She was both warrior and shining spear. She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“Kittens were in continual abundance on the farm, there was a kind of kitten currency in the neighborhood, they were bartered for all kinds of emotional regret or fulfillment by parents - a doll lost, an exam passed.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
“How quickly life could dissolve into its more ugly elements.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
Born place: in York, England, The United Kingdom
Born date January 1, 1951
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“One day he said, "I'll tell this town
How it feels to be an unfunny clown."
And he told them all why he looked so sad,
And he told them all why he felt so bad.
He told of Pain and Rain and Cold,
He told of Darkness in his soul,
And after he finished his tale of woe,
Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no,
They laughed until they shook the trees...
And while the world laughed outside.
Cloony the Clown sat down and cried.”
― Shel Silverstein, quote from A Light in the Attic
“Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are."
"Land mines?”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Lost Hero
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
― Franz Kafka, quote from The Trial
“He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”
― Arundhati Roy, quote from The God of Small Things
“Whatever false sense of security the contraption had once offered us was gone. Each time we left, even for a half hour, we wondered whether this would be the time that our manic inmate would bust out and go on another couch-shredding, wall-gouging, door-eating rampage. So much for peace of mind.”
― John Grogan, quote from Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
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