Water Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

— Margaret Atwood

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

— Margaret Atwood

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

— Margaret Atwood

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in…

— Margaret Atwood

The astrologers would tell that the U.S. is ruled by fire and Canada is ruled by water. Short version: You pep us…

— Margaret Atwood

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

— Margaret Atwood

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

— Margaret Atwood

Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

— Margaret Atwood

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than…

— Margaret Atwood

His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in…

— Margaret Atwood

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked…

— Margaret Atwood

If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns,…

— Margaret Atwood

Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag…

— Margaret Atwood

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll…

— Margaret Atwood

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of…

— Margaret Atwood

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing.…

— Margaret Atwood

Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will…

— Margaret Atwood

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not…

— Margaret Atwood

Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed…

— Margaret Atwood

Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of…

— Margaret Atwood

“Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in…

— Margaret Atwood