Heart Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Love is the pursuit of shadows ...

— Margaret Atwood

“She was very ordinary, under that beauty. She”

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“Nobody’s heart is perfect.”

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“She was thinking about how not to think.”

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“Now that she’s the carrier of life, she is closer to death, and needs special security.”

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The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

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She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.

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I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?

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She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons.

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Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

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The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.

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You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

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But most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though no twin as I…

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Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they…

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“And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode…

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“Moira became, over the years, increasingly versed in such anecdotes. I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.”

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“But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the…

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“She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with…

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The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make…

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“But if Crake wanted her to stay longer on any given night, do it again maybe, she'd make some excuse—jet lag, a…

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Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it…

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“The imprint left on her mind by the long famished body that had seemed in the darkness to consist of nothing by…

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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can…

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Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain…

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“He could never get used to her, she was fresh every time, she was a casketful of secrets. Any moment now she…

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“She thought all Janine's snivelling and repentance meant something, she thought Janine had been broken, she thought Janine was a true believer.…

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At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I…

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They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and…

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“Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in…

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Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we…

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“She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.”

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Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

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“Today she wears her habitual expression of strained anxiety; she smells of violets.”

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If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

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“He'd wanted to track down and personally injure anyone who had ever done harm to her or made her unhappy. He'd tortured…

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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it…

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