“Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.”
Source: Life After Life
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Famous Kate Atkinson Quotes
“Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.”
“The past is what you take with you.”
Source: Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
Source: One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)
“If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.”
Source: Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
“The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.”
Source: Behind the scenes at the museum
“If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.”
“It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.”
“Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.”
“The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.”
“You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.”
Source: Life After Life
Source: One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)
“Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.”
Source: When will there be good news?
Source: One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)
“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”
Source: Human Croquet: A Novel
“I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.”
Source: Human Croquet: A Novel
Source: Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
Source: Emotionally Weird: A Novel
Source: Emotionally Weird: A Novel
Source: Emotionally Weird: A Novel
Source: Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
“If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.”
Source: Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)
Source: Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)
“Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.”
Source: Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
Source: Emotionally Weird: A Novel