Kathy Nelson

“Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“We cannot turn away,” Miss Woolf told her, “we must get on with our job and we must bear witness.” What did that mean, Ursula wondered. “It means,” Miss Woolf said, “that we must remember these people when we are safely in the future.”
“And if we are killed?”
“Then others must remember us.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life