“Don't blame me, blame history, he says, smiling. Such things happen. Falling in love has been recorded, or at least those words… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“From the point of view of future history, this kind, we'll be invisible.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The tide of human desire, the desire for more and better, would overwhelm them. It would take control and drive events, as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“History (that list of ballooning wishes, flukes, bent times, plunges and mistakes clutched like parachutes) is rolling itself up in your head… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I remember a television program I once saw [...] I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It was the sort of thing my mother liked to watch: historical, educational. She tried to explain it to me afterwards, to tell me that the things in it had really happened, but to me it was only a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“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
