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Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4) QUOTES

Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4) QUOTES

1 " In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner of the living room and now he had a phone in his hand on which he could pretend to throw a scrunched-up piece of paper into a waste bin. The world had waited a long time for that. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

2 " Twittering just seemed to be people telling other people what they were doing--getting in the shower, making coffee. Who on earth wanted to know these things?...Babble and twitter. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

3 " Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

4 " This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

5 " He wondered what a visitor from the past would make of it. It used to be the poor who were thin and the rich who were fat, now it seemed to be the other way round. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

6 " ... the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

7 " This was love. It didn't come free, you paid in pain. Your own. But then nobody ever said love was easy. Well, they did, but they were idiots. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

8 " You could guarantee a decent cup of coffee in Betty's, but it went beyond the decent coffee and the respectable girls (and women) who had been parcelled up some time in the 1930s and freshly unwrapped this morning. It was the way that everything was exactly right and fitting. And clean. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

9 " Tracy thought she must be missing something, it felt like the same world as ever to her. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, kids everywhere falling through the cracks. The Victorians would have recognized it. People just watched a lot more TV and found celebrities interesting, that was all that was different. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

10 " He caught the look on her face, a mixture of distaste and confusion which eventually resolved into something more cryptic. Women usually needed to be acquainted with him a little longer before he saw that expression on their faces. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

11 " After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world, videos were obsolete. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

12 " Really she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return. She was considering getting a cat. She didn’t really like cats though. That might be a bit of a problem. Quite liked dogs. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

13 " You can’t change the past, only the future, and the only place you could change the future was in the present. That’s what they said. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

14 " Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let’s face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

15 " Time was a thief and Jackson felt he gained a small triumph by stealing back some of the early hours "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

16 " Sometimes Jackson thought that the past wasn’t just another country, it was a lost continent somewhere at the bottom of an unknown ocean. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

17 " Shropshire, the fatlands of Gloucestershire, "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

18 " disengaging from the rat race Jackson "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

19 " …she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

20 " It just went to show, you never knew what you were going to feel until you felt it. "

― Kate Atkinson , Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)