“Likely you would think at those times: What if he doesn’t love me?” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There will never be another caterpillar just like this one. there will never be another such moment of time, another such conjunction.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Because they were ready for us, and waiting. The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Fear is synonymous with the future, and the future consists of forked roads, I should say forking roads, because the roads are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don't? I picture the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“My name isn't Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it's forbidden. I tell myself it doesn't matter, your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Charis herself gave up Christianity a long time ago. For one thing, the Bible is full of meat: animals being sacrificed, lambs,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There are things I need to ask her. Not what happened, back then in the time I lost, because now I know… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You'll have to forgive me. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“More often than not, she acted as if she wanted to protect him, from the image of herself--herself in the past. She… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Then they fell from a joyous life in the moment into the anxious contemplation of the vanished past and the distant future.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There's time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for - the amount of unfilled time, the long… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We use butter, I said. When we can get it. Or margarine. A lot of the time it’s margarine. Butter, he said,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the… — margaret atwood Copy Share
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
