Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

- Kate Atkinson

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

- Kate Atkinson

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

- Kate Atkinson

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

- Kate Atkinson

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Non…

- Kate Atkinson

The past is what you take with you.

- Kate Atkinson

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

- Kate Atkinson

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and …

- Kate Atkinson

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

- Kate Atkinson