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Him Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.…
- They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering…
- Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition…
- Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll…
- He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
- I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one…
- The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary…
- He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly.…
- It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
- If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
- I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?
- She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous,…
- But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted…
- But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.
- He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box…
- Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his…
- So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually…
- Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought…
- 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 my skin, again,…
- These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.
- I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden