Kate Atkinson, Life After Life Quotes

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

The mind is a fathomless mystery.

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?