Life After Life

Life After Life

by

Kate Atkinson

Ursula and Jürgen’s daughter in Ursula’s German life. Five years old when the war starts, Frieda is the light of Ursula’s life. Ursula would do anything to protect her. When she grows sick, Eva Braun invites Ursula and Frieda to recover at Hitler’s mansion, and they quickly fall in love with Frieda as well. As the war takes a turn for the worse, Frieda gets sicker and sicker, until Ursula feels that the only way to protect her is by committing suicide together. Frieda is the only child that Ursula has in any timeline, and when Ursula kills Hitler in a later life, she says before she kills him that she is doing it for “her”—presumably, for Frieda.

Frieda Quotes in Life After Life

The Life After Life quotes below are all either spoken by Frieda or refer to Frieda. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Life, Reincarnation, and Alternate Possibilities Theme Icon
).
The Land of Begin Again, Apr 1945 Quotes

She held tightly on to Frieda and soon they were both wrapped in the velvet wings of the black bat and this life was already unreal and gone.

She had never chosen death over life before and as she was leaving she knew something had cracked and broken and the order of things had changed.

Related Characters: Ursula Todd, Frieda
Related Symbols: Darkness and the Black Bat
Page Number: 379
Explanation and Analysis:
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Frieda Quotes in Life After Life

The Life After Life quotes below are all either spoken by Frieda or refer to Frieda. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Life, Reincarnation, and Alternate Possibilities Theme Icon
).
The Land of Begin Again, Apr 1945 Quotes

She held tightly on to Frieda and soon they were both wrapped in the velvet wings of the black bat and this life was already unreal and gone.

She had never chosen death over life before and as she was leaving she knew something had cracked and broken and the order of things had changed.

Related Characters: Ursula Todd, Frieda
Related Symbols: Darkness and the Black Bat
Page Number: 379
Explanation and Analysis: