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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 15f65d1 | From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots. | slavery | Colson Whitehead | |
| e81d428 | Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 71bc569 | Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel not so terrible about my various emotional issues. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 6214f9d | Three cheers for your rich interior life, may it serve you well come rent day. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 22155f5 | The room stank of boys. Louise imagined a girl's room would smell of nail varnish, pencils, cheap candy sweets. Archie's room was essence of testosterone and feet. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| ab6aaeb | A good rule of thumb was that the more noise someone was making the less likely they were to die. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| c0ab1e5 | Really she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return. She was considering getting a cat. She didn't really like cats though. That might be a bit of a problem. Quite liked dogs. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 8f85a58 | You can't change the past, only the future, and the only place you could change the future was in the present. That's what they said. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 4720bba | Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let's face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 5c05ea0 | Time was a thief and Jackson felt he gained a small triumph by stealing back some of the early hours | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 290864e | Sometimes Jackson thought that the past wasn't just another country, it was a lost continent somewhere at the bottom of an unknown ocean. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| eaa5e50 | Ursula found it very odd to think that up above them there were German bombers being flown by men who, essentially, were just like Teddy. They weren't evil, they were just doing what had been asked of them by their country. It was war itself that was evil, not men. Although she would make an exception for Hitler. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 31ab7cf | No one ever warned you about how ferocious mother love could be, let's face it, no one warned you about anything. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| ef7723b | You don't see the point of English literature?' 'I don't see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it? | Kate Atkinson | ||
| ff262ef | But when you split someone's head open it smelled like an abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already in another life. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 0fbfe85 | How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.) | Kate Atkinson | ||
| c5da393 | It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was. You were either moved by it or you weren't. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 889741c | The purpose of Art,' his mother, Sylvie, said - instructed even - 'is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 94bc94d | It was the enormity of war, she thought, it left you scrabbling for ways to think about it. Bridget | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 07dcae6 | What's life worth if you can't have some fun? | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 9d91c31 | We're all primitives underneath, that's why we had to invent God, to be the voice of our conscience, or we would be killing each other left, right and centre. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 221e3c8 | She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back. Suddenly, | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 71efe12 | And I can't cry, I don't even want to cry. My tears would never do justice to this loss. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| e11c0b5 | 'Sacrifice,' " Sylvie said, "is a word that makes people feel noble about slaughter.") But," | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 9902a8e | anthroposophy, spiritualism. Everyone needs to make sense | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 57c99ae | Shropshire, the fatlands of Gloucestershire, | Kate Atkinson | ||
| dcabe32 | 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 | ||
| 06479c4 | sequiturs. 'That's got nothing to do with it,' Teddy | Kate Atkinson | ||
| a753d6c | Ah, but the rich are different,' the footman said, 'they take a lot more looking after. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 9f45259 | Harold?' 'Poor man, I suppose | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 5b4dc0c | those fateful words We are now at war with Germany, and for several hours felt strangely numb. She tried to phone Pamela | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 27c0ae3 | Home... wasn't Egerton Gardens, wasn't even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| ebb6b00 | 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 | ||
| 6bb9d5b | it was one of those questions you couldn't ask in case he were to tell the truth. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 0659647 | She was flawed, no longer intact. On the other hand, she felt as if she had been scourged clean. The past no longer weighed so heavily on the present. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 5462909 | Fat people weren't supposed to eat anything, but they were especially not supposed to eat confectionery, | Kate Atkinson | ||
| dab4976 | white lilies, the kind you would give to a bride or a corpse. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| f3fff75 | And then suddenly she was on her feet, her heart knocking in her chest, a sudden familiar but long-forgotten terror triggered- but by what? | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 0c7901d | but how could you spoil a child--by neglect, yes, but not by love. You had to give them all the love you could, even though giving that much love could cause you pain and anguish and horror and, in the end, love could destroy you. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 4829f2a | This was beauty too. Was there anything in nature that wasn't? | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 97a0158 | disengaging from the rat race Jackson | Kate Atkinson | ||
| a2614d3 | 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 thousand new scents. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| e1db007 | Look at the Germans, the most cultured and well mannered of people, and yet... Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Given the same set of circumstances it could just as well have been the English, | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 624df91 | I always thought the girl in that picture had the look of a frog about her," Nancy said, thinking, I look enigmatic because I'm dying. "Isn't" | Kate Atkinson |