Asshole Quote by Margaret Atwood

“Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Although he doesn't know it yet, she isn't his real life. But he is hers. This is painful.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want it back?…

— Margaret Atwood

“He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is…

— Margaret Atwood

“Already they're the objects of narrow sideways looks, as if they had something to do with it; already they've assumed the cornered, angry air…

— Margaret Atwood

“Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you’re on your…

— Margaret Atwood

“She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing…

— Margaret Atwood

“I do have a life,' says Charis, blinking wet eyes. 'You have a rich inner life,' says Tony firmly. 'More than most.”

— Margaret Atwood

“She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels like a stray child,…

— Margaret Atwood

“Roz is crying again. What she's mourning is her own good will. She tried so hard, she tried so hard to be kind and…

— Margaret Atwood

“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of…

— Margaret Atwood

“This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?”

— Margaret Atwood