“ Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick? Margaret Atwood
“ Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arriv… Margaret Atwood
“ And the evening was so beautiful, that it made a pain in my heart, as when you cannot tell wether you are happy or sad; and I thought that if I could have a wish, it would be that nothing would ever c… Margaret Atwood
“ If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it. Margaret Atwood
“ The summer dresses are unpacked and hanging in the closet, two of them, pure cotton, which is better than synthetics like the cheaper ones, though even so, when it's muggy, in July and August, you swe… Margaret Atwood
“ The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread. Margaret Atwood
“ The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the daily grit produced by the daily grind. Unhappily for realistic novelists, the large… Margaret Atwood
“ Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't changed for thousands of years because as far as we can tell the human template hasn't changed either. W… Margaret Atwood