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The past is what you take with you.

The past is what you take with you.

Kate Atkinson
Past
Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.331, Macmillan

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. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

Kate Atkinson
Past, Boards, Rubies
Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.331, Macmillan

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Kate Atkinson
Past, Sometimes, Harder
Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.577, Random House

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

Kate Atkinson
Past, Keys, Light
Kate Atkinson (1995). “Behind the scenes at the museum”

I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

Kate Atkinson
Past, Thinking, Creating
"Behind the scenes with Kate Atkinson". www.independent.co.uk. August 06, 2000.

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