She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn’t even have the strength to feel guilty.
– Kate Atkinson
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- If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn’t mind being their mother. – Kate Atkinson
- This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. – Dorothy Parker
- Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
- I don’t feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt. – Ted Bundy
- Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. – Margaret Mead
- The question shouldn’t be, ‘Are we guilty about our Colonial past?’ it should be, ‘Why aren’t we more guilty about our corporate present? – Sara Sheridan
- It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. – Ben Aaronovitch
- Pam wasn’t what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her. – Kate Atkinson
- Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. – Kate Atkinson
- They were lucky. They’d been given history. – Kate Atkinson
- The mind is a fathomless mystery. – Kate Atkinson
- But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country – The Rest Of My Life. – Kate Atkinson
- Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future. – Kate Atkinson
- Popular versus literary-”a false divide? – Kate Atkinson
- She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel. – Kate Atkinson
- In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. – Kate Atkinson
- The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door. – Kate Atkinson
- All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy’s. – Kate Atkinson
- Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness – Kate Atkinson
- The past is what you take with you. – Kate Atkinson
- You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. – Kate Atkinson
- If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus. – Kate Atkinson
- So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements. – Kate Atkinson
- was there a store somewhere full of unwanted secrets? – Kate Atkinson
- It’s true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well. – Bradley Steffens
- Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth moveDoubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love – William Shakespeare
- Doubt is horrible feature… we all doubt that’s the worst part and the worse episode in this season of doubt. – Deyth Banger
- Doubt is horrible feature… we all doubt that’s the worst part and the worse episode in this season of doubt. – Deyth Banger
- Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother. – Katharine Hepburn
- Sometimes, somehow…I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men. – Toba Beta
- Never hurt a woman because she is someone’s mother or will be someone’s mother. Could you hurt your mother? – Debasish Mridha
- The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother’s mother, on back to Mother Earth. – Patricia Robin Woodruff
- A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. – Angela Carter
- What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! – Leo Tolstoy
- You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes. – Liane Moriarty
- Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark. – Welcome to Nightvale
- In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom. – Harrison Scott Key
- Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord. – George RR Martin