The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Moira became, over the years, increasingly versed in such anecdotes. I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets, not that he'd thought much about them at the time.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“When I was younger, imagining age, I would think, Maybe you appreciate things more when you don't have much time left. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Charis herself gave up Christianity a long time ago. For one thing, the Bible is full of meat: animals being sacrificed, lambs,… — 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
“Maybe acting as if she believes in such a future will help to create it, which is the kind of thing the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The past no longer belongs only to those who once lived it; the past belongs to those who claim it, and are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I had now been a servant for three years, and could act the part well enough by that time. But Nancy was… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What pays for all this?" "Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.” — 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
