A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen
Kate AtkinsonUrsula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.
Kate AtkinsonShe had had affairs over the years ... but she had never been pregnant, never been a mother or a wife and it was only when she realized that it was too late, that it could never be, that she understood what it was that she had lost. Pamela's life would go on after she was dead, her descendants spreading through the world like the waters of a delta, but when Ursula died she would simply end. A stream that ran dry.
Kate AtkinsonWhat if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Kate AtkinsonDr. Kellet himself wore a three-piece Harris tweed suit strung with a large gold fob watch. He smelled of cloves and pipe tobacco and had a twinkly look about him as if he were going to toast muffins or read a particularly good story to her, but instead he beamed at Ursula and said, "So, I hear you tried to kill your maid?" (Oh, that's why I'm here, Ursula thought.)
Kate AtkinsonSometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.
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I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.
Kate AtkinsonPatricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.
Kate AtkinsonShe doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said.
"Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.
There were other war veterans in the neighborhood, visible thanks to their limps or missing limbs. All those unclaimed arms and legs lost in the fields of Flanders - Ursula imagined them pushing roots down into the mud and shoots up to the sky and growing once again into men. An army of men marching back for revenge.
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