No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I wonder why trying to transcend time never even succeeds in stopping it...” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“My name isn't Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it's forbidden. I tell myself it doesn't matter, your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“More often than not, she acted as if she wanted to protect him, from the image of herself--herself in the past. She… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“He had been with me, but he wasn't with me now, we had been walking along a street like this one and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Canada, at the moment, is going through a Lord of the Rings moment. Having been a lowly Hobbit with furry feet and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Of course Crake wasn’t Crake yet, at that time: his name was Glenn. Why did it have two n’s instead of the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The past is a great darkness, and filled with echos. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I have enough daily bread, so I won't waste time on that. It isn't the main problem. The problem is getting it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“My name isn’t Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden. I tell myself it doesn’t matter, your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I was nervous. How was I to know he loved me? It might be just an affair. Why did we ever say… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You'll have to forgive me. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power… — 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