A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body.
Kate AtkinsonMots clés first-sentence
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.
Kate AtkinsonThey said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.
Kate AtkinsonWhy do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.
Kate AtkinsonOh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
Kate AtkinsonMots clés life
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.
Kate AtkinsonI am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
Kate AtkinsonAs I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.
Kate AtkinsonThe beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
Kate AtkinsonIn the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
Kate AtkinsonMots clés words
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