She supposed she was a little cog in the big wheel of Empire. “Nothing wrong with being a cog,” Maurice said, himself now a big wheel in the Home Office. “The world needs cogs.
Kate AtkinsonMots clés cogs
The mind is a fathomless mystery.
Kate AtkinsonMots clés mind
How quickly life could dissolve into its more ugly elements.
Kate AtkinsonHindsight’s a wonderful thing,” Klara said. “If we all had it there would be no history to write about.
Kate AtkinsonMots clés hindsight
We cannot turn away,” Miss Woolf told her, “we must get on with our job and we must bear witness.” What did that mean, Ursula wondered. “It means,” Miss Woolf said, “that we must remember these people when we are safely in the future.”
“And if we are killed?”
“Then others must remember us.
Mots clés remember
Stella was one of Mr Bullock’s ‘chorus girls’ and confessed (readily) to being a ‘striptease artiste’ but Mr Armitage the opera singer said, “We’re all artistes here, darling.”
“What a bloody fairy that man is,” Mr Bullock muttered, “put him in the army, that would sort him out.” “I doubt it,” Miss Woolf said. (And it did rather beg the question why the strapping Mr Bullock himself had not been called up for active service.) “So,” Mr Bullock concluded, “we’ve got a Yid, a pansy and a tart, sounds like a dirty music-hall joke.”
“It is intolerance that has brought us to this pass, Mr Bullock,” Miss Woolf reproved him midly.
Mots clés intolerance
Her heart swelled with the high holiness of it all. Imminence was all around. She was both warrior and shining spear. She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.
Kate AtkinsonMots clés imminence
you walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living.
Kate AtkinsonHer 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.
Kate AtkinsonMost people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.
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