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 AtkinsonMots clés religion exercise worship princess-diana
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 AtkinsonTime 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 AtkinsonIt 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 AtkinsonShe... applied makeup, enough to have made an effort, not enough to be blatantly a woman...
Kate AtkinsonPam 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 AtkinsonMots clés friendship
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 AtkinsonMots clés jackson-brodie
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 AtkinsonJust because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again.
Kate AtkinsonFirst things were good, last things not so much so.
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