Not the End of the World Quotes

“That was the one thing June had been terrified of having - a standard life, an ordinary life, a life like her parents’ - living in a pink sandstone semi-detached villa in the suburbs with a neat garden and an en-suite master bedroom with fitted wardrobes”
― Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World

“Why did people understand how precious each day was only once the doors to the grave had opened and they had looked inside? What was the point of that?”
― Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World

“We could buy a sewing machine and share it,” Charlene said. “We could buy cloth and spools of thread and paper patterns and spend pleasant winter evenings dressmaking together. Perhaps by the soft light from beautiful glass oil lamps. We could sit in a pool of golden light from the beautiful glass oil lamps and our silver needles would glimmer and flash as we bowed our heads to the simple yet honest work.” But”
― Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World

“The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me. BUFFY SUMMERS, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER”
― Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World

“All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. EDGAR ALLAN POE,
“A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM”
― Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World

“Missy believed that knowledge was best taken in small, digestible portions. Museums and galleries, in her opinion, were full of people wandering listlessly from exhibit to exhibit, their eyes glazed over with too much information and not enough knowledge.”
― Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World

“From almost the moment her American Airlines plane had touched down on English tarmac, Meredith had succumbed to an odd malaise, a mysterious kind of inertia that lay on her like a fog. She suspected she was suffering from an overabundance of history, something she’d never had to deal with in California.”
― Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World

“Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, Past the houses, past the headlands, Into deep eternity. EMILY DICKINSON”
― Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World