“Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“My life had a tendency to spread, get flabby, to scroll and festoon like the frame of a baroque mirror, which came… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“the ladies who were going in, frightened by the first signs of droop and pucker, then going out again, buffed and tightened… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But also I’m hungry. This is monstrous, but nevertheless it’s true. Death makes me hungry. Maybe it’s because I’ve been emptied; or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere though of impending death acts like an aphrodisiac.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What pays for all this?" "Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The Chorus Line: A Rope-Jumping Rhyme we are the maids the ones you killed the ones you failed we danced in air… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no matter how much… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Death is a beautiful woman, with wings and one breast almost bare; or is that Victory? I can’t remember. They” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“For it is not always the one that strikes the blow that is the actual murderer; and Mary was done to death… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Death makes me hungry. Maybe it's because I've been emptied; or maybe it's the body's way of seeing to it that I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“…Homo sapiens doesn’t seem able to cut himself off at the supply end. He’s one of the few species that doesn’t limit… — 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
