Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A space-time, between here and now and there and then, puncuated by dinner” — 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
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Likely you would think at those times: What if he doesn’t love me?” — 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
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
“Then they fell from a joyous life in the moment into the anxious contemplation of the vanished past and the distant future.” — 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
“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
All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Though at that time men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Stories are no good, not even the short ones, because by the time you get to the second page he's forgotten the… — 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
“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
“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
“Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd… — 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
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
“Their mother died early, and not in a good way. Not that anyone dies in a good way, Tin footnotes to himself,… — 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
“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
“Feathers," he says. They ask this question at least once a week. He gives the same answer. Even over such a short… — 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
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
“Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever's going on is usual.… — 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
“There are things I need to ask her. Not what happened, back then in the time I lost, because now I know… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“in the future you’d be able to get your very own pig made, with second copies of everything.” — 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
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace. — 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
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“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
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
