“ Girl Without HandsWalking through the ruinson your way to workthat do not look like ruinswith the sunlight pouring overthe seen worldlike hail or meltedsilver, that brightand magnificent, each leafand… Margaret Atwood
“ The Chorus Line: The Birth of Telemachus, An IdyllNine months he sailed the wine-red seas of his mother's bloodOut of the cave of dreaded Night, of sleep,Of troubling dreams he sailedIn his frail dark… Margaret Atwood
“ So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be sai… Margaret Atwood
“ We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment, before she slips from our grasp and flees. As al… Margaret Atwood
“ She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it. Margaret Atwood
“ The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's u… Margaret Atwood
“ Although he doesn't know it yet, she isn't his real life. But he is hers.This is painful. Margaret Atwood
“ The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken. Like a hollow log, a drum, a church,… Margaret Atwood
“ Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, I'll be dead, you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's h… Margaret Atwood
“ Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go… Margaret Atwood
“ Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle… Margaret Atwood
“ She believed in public service; she felt she had to roll up her sleeves and do something useful for the war effort. She organized a Comfort Circle, which collected money through rummage sales. This wa… Margaret Atwood
“ 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 responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and tha… Margaret Atwood
“ I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. Margaret Atwood
“ She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beauti… Margaret Atwood
“ That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us. Margaret Atwood
“ Nor does she attend conventions any more: she’s seen enough kids dressed up like vampires and bunnies and , and especially like the nastier villains of Alphinland. She really can’t bear one more inept… Margaret Atwood
