Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson, MBEis an award-winning English writer. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in 1995 and, under its new name the Costa Book Awards, in 2013 and 2015 in the Novels category...
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beautiful morning cutting
When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.
waiting realizing feels
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.
past
The past is what you take with you.
mother sleep mind
If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.
silence stories ends
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
lying believe half
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.
sky clouds imagination
As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.