I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.
Kate AtkinsonTime was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.
Kate AtkinsonWhatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.
Kate AtkinsonI think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
Kate Atkinson