“Orpheus 2 He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened. — 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
Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Now that she’s the carrier of life, she is closer to death, and needs special security.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: Where have you been all my life? they ask. Where… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Luke was in the living room. He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She's wearing jeans and a T, ordinary-enough clothes, though with her inside them they look like silk. Life is unfair, he thinks,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The stories the children whispered to one another - while they sat weaving their endless carpets, while they could still see -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn't… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She expected too much from me, I felt. She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she'd made.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Already they're the objects of narrow sideways looks, as if they had something to do with it; already they've assumed the cornered,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We dangle by a flimsy thread, Our little lives are grains of sand: The Cosmos is a tiny sphere Held in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she would cry. I was so lonely, she'd say. You have no idea how lonely I was. And I had friends,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“UP You wake up filled with dread. There seems no reason for it. Morning light sifts through the window, there is birdsong,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Why interesting and important? Because women are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it? Which does… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What we consider real is also imagined; every life lived is also an inner life, a life created.” — 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
