Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion.

Kate Atkinson

Mots clés religion exercise worship princess-diana



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You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.

Kate Atkinson


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Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

Kate Atkinson


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It wasn't fair, he thought peevishly. "Who said life was fair?" his father had said to him a hundred times. He had said the same himself to his own daughter. ("It's not fair, Daddy.") Parents were miserable buggers. It SHOULD be fair. It should be paradise.

Kate Atkinson


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She... applied makeup, enough to have made an effort, not enough to be blatantly a woman...

Kate Atkinson


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Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.

Kate Atkinson

Mots clés friendship



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This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing.

Kate Atkinson

Mots clés jackson-brodie



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After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world, videos were obsolete.

Kate Atkinson

Mots clés obsolete videos



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Just because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again.

Kate Atkinson


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First things were good, last things not so much so.

Kate Atkinson


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