Kate Atkinson

“Time is supposed to move forwards.'

'What if I don't like what happens?'

'Then...you change it.”
― Brian Selznick, The Marvels

“Who could have predicted what would happen in the time it takes to boil an egg?”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Vango: Between Sky And Earth

“Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything. God loves admiration.

You saying God vain? I ast.

Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller”
― G.K. Chesterton