Quote by Margaret Atwood Download Open image ““It’s a juvenile display, the whole act, and pathetic; but it’s something I understand.”” — Margaret Atwood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.” — Karen White Copy Share Image
“Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“With kids, what you see is what you get. There's just truth in their innocence that we as adults have lost and will never… — Michelle Figley Copy Share Image
“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“And isn’t there something a little sad about youth and beauty in any circumstances?” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Kids do not appreciate subtlety in adults when they are trying to understand something.” — Stan Morris Copy Share Image
“There was something about the smallest gestures with him that made me feel like a teenager again. I told myself to just enjoy it.” — Cindi Madsen Copy Share Image
“...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Oh, it was horrible to have a teenager’s emotions and a forty-year-old’s body. It was humiliating. It was depressing. It was degrading.” — Katherine Heiny 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
