“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
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — 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… — 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,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The ochre-yellow linoleum floor hasn't been scrubbed for some time; splotches of dirt bloom on it like grey pressed flowers.” — 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
Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She thought all Janine's snivelling and repentance meant something, she thought Janine had been broken, she thought Janine was a true believer.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Fear is synonymous with the future, and the future consists of forked roads, I should say forking roads, because the roads are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive. — 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
“Because they were ready for us, and waiting. The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you’ve made it this far, please remember: you will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We use butter, I said. When we can get it. Or margarine. A lot of the time it’s margarine. Butter, he said,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don't? I picture the… — 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
