“ This thing I'm doing can hardly be called living. Instead I'm lying dormant, like a bacterium in a glacier. Getting time over with. That's all. Margaret Atwood
“ They have a certain gaiety to them, a power of invention, they don't care what people think. They have escaped, though what it is they've escaped from isn't clear to us. We think that their bizarre co… Margaret Atwood
“ The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. We don't think of the clients here as dying, one of them said to him on his firs… Margaret Atwood
“ That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some directi… Margaret Atwood
“ She said, What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know an hurt you very much. Margaret Atwood
“ She probably has a row of men's dicks nailed to her wall, like stuffed animal heads. Margaret Atwood
“ Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because the real mushroom plant was underground. The parts you could see - what most people called a mushroom - was just a brief apparition… Margaret Atwood
“ I’m losing the appetite for strangers. Once I would have focused on the excitement, the hazard; now it’s the mess, the bother. Getting your clothes off gracefully, always such an impossibility; thinki… Margaret Atwood
“ It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam. Margaret Atwood
“ I'm sad now, the way we're talking is infinitely sad: faded music, faded paper flowers, worn satin, an echo of an echo. All gone away, no longer possible. Margaret Atwood
“ I and the girl in the picture have ceased to be the same person. I am her outcome, the result of the life she once lived headlong; whereas she, if she can be said to exist at all, is composed only of… Margaret Atwood
