Respect Quote by Margaret Atwood

““It was Crake preserving his dignity, because the alternative would have been losing it.””

Margaret Atwood

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I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

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“It's my fault. I am forgetting too much.”

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“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”

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