Quotes from Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.