The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
Kate AtkinsonWhy do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.
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 AtkinsonHe was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.
Kate Atkinson