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  1. Kate Atkinson _ Case Histories

    No woman was ever truly safe. It didn't matter if you were as tough as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection or Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 because wherever you went there were men.
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  2. Kate Atkinson _ Case Histories

    She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.
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    What does it matter what people do? At the end of the day we're all dead.
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  4. Kate Atkinson _ Case Histories

    Because you couldn't make time, she'd been deluded about that. Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.
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  5. Kate Atkinson _ Case Histories

    Maybe this was why people filled their house with stinking cats, so they didn't notice that they were alone, so they wouldn't die without a living soul noticing.
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    the dogs had got into the graveyard and were now moving like Hoovers across the ground, their noses down, their tails up, their small dog brains consumed with the idea of uncharted territory and a thousand new scents.
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  7. Kate Atkinson _ Case Histories

    but how could you spoil a child-by neglect, yes, but not by love. You had to give them all the love you could, even though giving that much love could cause you pain and anguish and horror and, in the end, love could destroy you.
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  8. Kate Atkinson _ Case Histories

    white lilies, the kind you would give to a bride or a corpse.
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  9. Kate Atkinson _ Case Histories

    Fat people weren't supposed to eat anything, but they were especially not supposed to eat confectionery,
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  10. Kate Atkinson _ Case Histories

    But when you split someone's head open it smelled like an abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already in another life.
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  11. Kate Atkinson _ Case Histories

    Sister Michael turned and looked at him, and, despite her plump, jolly face, she had nuns' eyes, and nuns' eyes, Jackson knew, could see right inside your head, so he nodded respectfully at the statue. Sanguis Christi, inebria me.
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  12. Kate Atkinson _ Case Histories

    That was how you lost people, a little carelessness and they just slipped through your fingers.
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