“ I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. Margaret Atwood
“ [...] he often talked to himself and he was the best conversationalist he knew; [...] Margaret Atwood
“ Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. Margaret Atwood
“ This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It’s as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, b… Margaret Atwood
“ This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone Margaret Atwood
“ There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. Margaret Atwood
“ She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences. Margaret Atwood
“ Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. Margaret Atwood
“ Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don’t coun… Margaret Atwood
“ It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons. Margaret Atwood
“ If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be… Margaret Atwood
“ I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was. Margaret Atwood
“ I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head. Margaret Atwood
