“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we… — margaret atwood Copy Share Image
“Once, though, I heard Rita say to Cora that she wouldn't debase herself like that. Nobody asking you, Cora said. Anyways, what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“So many crucial events take place behind people’s backs, when they aren’t in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“So many crucial events take place behind people’s backs, when they aren’t in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Now that she’s the carrier of life, she is closer to death, and needs special security.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing changes instantaneously: in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What do I want? I want you to talk about normal things. No I don’t. I want you to look me in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Already they're the objects of narrow sideways looks, as if they had something to do with it; already they've assumed the cornered,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever's going on is usual.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Dear Sir, I reply, I never had any. Bad sex, that is. It was never the sex, it was the other things,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, 'Take me to your… — 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 Image
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
