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Life After Life

Kate Atkinson

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.”

“What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?”

“I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.”

“He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.”

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

“Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.”

“It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.”

“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”

“No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.”

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

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