Our Noble Selves Quotes

“she seemed arrogant. She might just be shy,”
― Kate Atkinson, Our Noble Selves

“He’d been given back his life and he was going to have to live it, whether he liked it or not. Plodding to the end on the path of endurance.”
― Kate Atkinson, Our Noble Selves

“It wasn’t that he wanted to be dead, he simply couldn’t be bothered with the tiresome business of being alive. It seemed ironic, having spent the last three years struggling to do just that.”
― Kate Atkinson, Our Noble Selves

“He wasn’t whole, he would never be whole, but, like the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of men before him who had returned from a war, he was getting on with his life by treating the past as if it barely existed.”
― Kate Atkinson, Our Noble Selves

“From afar, Flynn had developed a certain affinity with the Lion and the Unicorn. He was, he felt, himself a figure of straw, insubstantial and unenduring.”
― Kate Atkinson, Our Noble Selves