Shapes Quotes by Margaret Atwood

9 Shapes quotes by Margaret Atwood

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Atwood’s nine succinct reflections on shapes weave literary nuance into a quick read, inviting you to consider how structure shapes meaning.

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But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies,…

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While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it…

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I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around…

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Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street…

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What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective…

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I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if…

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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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“It’s impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have…

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I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age…

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“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”

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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

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“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…

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“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their…

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“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the…

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I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

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“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…

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“It's my fault. I am forgetting too much.”

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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…

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“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;…

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“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”

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“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…

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