“ Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber gloves with only one finger, and every time she saw one she had to be severe with herself or she’d g… Margaret Atwood
“ But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the messeng… Margaret Atwood
“ Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring. Margaret Atwood
“ Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here that the spy thriller and the crime story and the adventure story and the su… Margaret Atwood
“ An old walrus-faced waiter attended to me; he had the knack of pouring the coffee and the hot milk from two jugs, held high in the air, and I found this entrancing, as if he were a child's magician. O… Margaret Atwood
“ Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Margaret Atwood
“ Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterp… Margaret Atwood
“ The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood
“ A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon? Margaret Atwood
“ You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy. Margaret Atwood
“ You all right? he said again.I didn't love him, I was far away from him, it was as though I was seeing him through a smeared window or glossy paper; he didn't belong here. But he existed, he deserved… Margaret Atwood
“ Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.Right. Yes. The usual choices. Margaret Atwood
“ We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander h… Margaret Atwood
“ We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact. We are picking up chocolate chips for days. Jon throws a glass of… Margaret Atwood
“ Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are. Margaret Atwood
