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1b59b6a	Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.	future kate-atkinson past	Kate Atkinson
a73c04c	All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination. And this one is Teddy's.	alternate-universe ending heartbreaking heartwrenching imagination kate-atkinson last-lines sad tearjerker teddy-todd twist-ending what-if	Kate Atkinson
795c792	She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay the ferryman. The air rippled and shimmered. Time narrowed to a pinpoint. It was about to happen.	beautiful death dying edward-thomas gerard-manley-hopkins john-keats kate-atkinson literary-allusions literary-quotes quotes william-blake william-shakespeare william-wordsworth	Kate Atkinson
7e33ae3	Across the world millions of lives are altered by the absence of the dead, but three members of Teddy's last crew--Clifford the bomb-aimer, Fraser, the injured pilot, and Charlie, the tail-end Charlie--all bail out successfully from and see out the rest of the war in a POW camp. On their return they all marry and have children, fractals of the future.	alternate-universe butterfly-effect dead ending fractals kate-atkinson ripple-effect survivors twist-ending	Kate Atkinson
9f8e3fb	The clock had been Sylvie's, and her mother's before that. It had gone to Ursula on Sylvie's death and Ursula had left it to Teddy, and so it had zigzagged its way down the family tree... ...The clock was a good one, made by Frodsham and worth quite a bit, but Teddy knew if he gave it to Viola she would sell it or misplace it or break it and it seemed important to him that it stayed in the family. An heirloom. ('Lovely word,' Bertie said.) He liked to think that the little golden key that wound it, a key that would almost certainly be lost by Viola, would continue to be turned by the hand of someone who was part of the family, part of his blood. The red thread.	blood family generations heirloom kate-atkinson red-string-of-fate the-red-thread	Kate Atkinson
28914ed	Was there a poet who written about skylarks?	kate-atkinson poet skylarks	Kate Atkinson
239bf45	And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!	alternate-universe ending fiction fifth-wall kate-atkinson twist-ending	Kate Atkinson
5dbfb39	And when all else is gone, Art remains.	art art-remains kate-atkinson	Kate Atkinson

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

Kate Atkinson

a73c04c

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination. And this one is Teddy's.

alternate-universe ending heartbreaking heartwrenching imagination kate-atkinson last-lines sad tearjerker teddy-todd twist-ending what-if

Kate Atkinson

795c792

She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay the ferryman. The air rippled and shimmered. Time narrowed to a pinpoint. It was about to happen.

beautiful death dying edward-thomas gerard-manley-hopkins john-keats kate-atkinson literary-allusions literary-quotes quotes william-blake william-shakespeare william-wordsworth

Kate Atkinson

7e33ae3

Across the world millions of lives are altered by the absence of the dead, but three members of Teddy's last crew--Clifford the bomb-aimer, Fraser, the injured pilot, and Charlie, the tail-end Charlie--all bail out successfully from and see out the rest of the war in a POW camp. On their return they all marry and have children, fractals of the future.

alternate-universe butterfly-effect dead ending fractals kate-atkinson ripple-effect survivors twist-ending

Kate Atkinson

9f8e3fb

The clock had been Sylvie's, and her mother's before that. It had gone to Ursula on Sylvie's death and Ursula had left it to Teddy, and so it had zigzagged its way down the family tree... ...The clock was a good one, made by Frodsham and worth quite a bit, but Teddy knew if he gave it to Viola she would sell it or misplace it or break it and it seemed important to him that it stayed in the family. An heirloom. ('Lovely word,' Bertie said.) He liked to think that the little golden key that wound it, a key that would almost certainly be lost by Viola, would continue to be turned by the hand of someone who was part of the family, part of his blood. The red thread.

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Kate Atkinson

28914ed

Was there a poet who written about skylarks?

kate-atkinson poet skylarks

Kate Atkinson

239bf45

And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

alternate-universe ending fiction fifth-wall kate-atkinson twist-ending

Kate Atkinson

5dbfb39

And when all else is gone, Art remains.

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Kate Atkinson