Kate Atkinson
Related KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner... NORM TOMLINSON The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrific... NORM TOMLINSON HARUKI MURAKAMI You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love. SARVESH JAIN DIANA WYNNE JONES NEIL GAIMAN PAULO COELHO QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II J.R.R. TOLKIEN PRINCE WILLIAM PRINCESS DIANA CATHERINE THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS KING JAMES I MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON KING SOLOMON FREDERICK THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON MARIE ANTOINETTE MARIE ANTOINETTE QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN QUEEN VICTORIA KING JAMES I CHARLES V KATE MIDDLETON MARIE ANTOINETTE I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. AUGUSTUS FREDERICK THE GREAT
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I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw. 
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. 
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... 
What is the Other?" they ask.
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... 
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. 
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... 
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... 
Family is the most important thing in the world. 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. 
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... 
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. 
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... 
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. 
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It... 
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. 
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. 
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. 
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. 
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their... 
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Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. On the subject o... 
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. 
Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open inf... 
In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of... 
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very sm... 
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembere... 
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest... 
This was our first time. 
We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home r... 