Fall Quotes by Margaret Atwood

“Falling in love, I said. Falling into it, we all did then, one way or another.”

— Margaret Atwood

“The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge. I”

— Margaret Atwood

“The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.”

— Margaret Atwood

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.

— Margaret Atwood

Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are…

— Margaret Atwood

His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in…

— Margaret Atwood

Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with…

— Margaret Atwood

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The…

— Margaret Atwood

I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in…

— Margaret Atwood

“The Fall was ongoing, but its trajectory led ever downward. Sucked into the well of knowledge, you could only plummet, learning more…

— Margaret Atwood

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

— Margaret Atwood

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

— Margaret Atwood

I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke…

— Margaret Atwood

The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me.…

— Margaret Atwood

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

There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not…

— Margaret Atwood

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east,…

— Margaret Atwood

Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to…

— Margaret Atwood

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like…

— Margaret Atwood

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a…

— Margaret Atwood