There was always a second before the siren started when she was aware of a sound as yet unheard. It was like an echo, or rather the opposite of an echo. An echo came afterwards, but was there a word for what came before?
Kate AtkinsonPamela, even at a distance, was the voice of her conscience, but then it was very easy to have a conscience from a distance.
Kate AtkinsonLove at first sight, she wrote giddily to Millie. But of course such feelings weren't 'true' love (that was what she would feel for a child one day), merely the false grandeur of madness.
Kate AtkinsonAnd who thought it was a good idea to rent bicycles to Italian adolescent language students? If hell did exist, which Jackson was sure it did, it would be governed by a committee of fifteen-year-old Italian boys on bikes.
Kate AtkinsonHow many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?
Kate AtkinsonTags: marriage disappointment
This was their third bar since Piccadilly and they were both agreed that the two of them were very drunk but had the capacity to get a good deal drunker yet.
Kate AtkinsonTags: drunk
They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge.
Kate AtkinsonI'm always so glad,' Sylvie murmured, 'that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.'
'You're very good at being yourself,' Ursula said, aware that it didn't necessarily sound like a compliment.
'Well, I've had years of practice.
From the open French windows Sylvie watched Maurice erecting a makeshift tennis net, which mostly seemed to involve whacking everything in sight with a mallet. Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.
Kate AtkinsonIt was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.
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