Margaret-atwood Quote by Margaret Atwood Download Open image ““This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.”” — Margaret Atwood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Margaret-atwood Poetry True-stories
“I hold on to him longer than is necessary, but then I let him go. Of course I let him go; there’s no other… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“Hold tight to the world and do not let go and do not fuck this up.” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“I cannot stop the world from moving. All I can do is be prepared for when it does.” — Danielle L. Jensen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's not what we hold on to that shapes our lives--it's what we're willing to let go of.” — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you hold onto things, not because you want to keep them, but because they are difficult to let go.” — Phaedra Patrick Copy Share Image
“Nothing lasts," she says, and there's a little crack in her voice. "You think it's going to. You think, 'Here's something I can hold… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
“Nothing lasts. You think it's going to. You think 'Here's something I can hold on to', but it always slips away.” — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
“I’ve got to do something. I can’t just sit here until the world ends. It will take too long.” — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“Even the end of the world can’t keep us from wanting to belong, I guess.” — Susan Ee 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 heights, but each one of them is admirably proportioned. Each is sound of tooth, smooth of skin. No ripples of fat around their waists, no bulges, no dimpled orange-skin cellulite on their thighs. No body hair,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens ["Strange New World,"… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I am not mad because I'm a woman... I'm mad because you're an asshole.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the… — Jack McClelland Copy Share
“I do have a life,' says Charis, blinking wet eyes. 'You have a rich inner life,' says Tony firmly. 'More than most.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image