She was a terrible mother, ...

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
 Kate Atkinson

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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 Atkinson
If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.
 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
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
 Kate Atkinson
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.
 Kate Atkinson