If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.
Kate AtkinsonThe Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).
Kate AtkinsonShe was born with the winter already in her bones.
Kate AtkinsonIf she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)
Kate AtkinsonTag: hatch
How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs," she said to Ursula.
Kate AtkinsonTag: dark-thoughts
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.
Kate AtkinsonTag: lies
A simple acceptance of what comes to us, regarding it as neither bad nor good.
“Werde, der du bist, as he would have it,” Dr Kellet continued ... “It means become who you are,” he said.
Tag: become
Because life is an adventure, of course.”
“I would say it was more of an endurance race,” Sylvie said. “Or an obstacle course.
Tag: obstacle-course
What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.
Kate AtkinsonTag: science
Scars heal,” Sylvie said. “Even the worst ones.
Kate AtkinsonTag: scars
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