Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share… — 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
“What are we do to? The child sex trade is not for us: our children are unattractive and rude, and - due… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“This was something he certainly had not done. I thought he might be toying, some cat-and-mouse routine, but now I think that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I thought he might be toying, some cat-and-mouse routine, but now I think that his motives and desires weren’t obvious even to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It is the strict adherence to daily routine that tends towards the maintenance of good morale and the preservation of sanity,” he… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated… — 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
“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
“I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In front of us, to the right, is the store where we order dresses. Some people call them habits , a good… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women.” — 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 heights, but each one of them is admirably proportioned. Each is sound of tooth, smooth of skin. No ripples of fat around their waists, no bulges, no dimpled orange-skin cellulite on their thighs. No body hair,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
