“ Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. Margaret Atwood
“ Romantic people are not supposed to laugh, I know that much from looking at the pictures. Margaret Atwood
“ Oryx, he says. I know you’re there. He repeats the name. It’s not even her real name, which he’d never known anyway; it’s only a word. It’s a mantra. Sometimes he can conjure her up. At first she’s pa… Margaret Atwood
“ Nothing like love to put bloodback in the language,the difference between the beach and itsdiscrete rocks and shards, a hardcuneiform, and the tender cursiveof waves; bone and liquid fishegg, desertan… Margaret Atwood
“ Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. Margaret Atwood
“ Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeone… Margaret Atwood
“ No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. Margaret Atwood
“ No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as… Margaret Atwood
“ My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration... are too much for me. I ha… Margaret Atwood
“ Just what the doctor ordered, he says. A bottle of lemonade, a hard-boiled egg, and Thou. Margaret Atwood
“ Jon smashes things, and glues the shards into place in the pattern of breakage. I can see the appeal. Margaret Atwood
“ It's okay, mummy's in there lying on the floor. She'll be alright in an hour or so. Margaret Atwood
“ I was stuck in Port Ticonderoga, proud bastion of the common-and-garden variety button and of lower-priced long johns for the budget-minded shoppers. I would stagnate here, nothing would ever happen t… Margaret Atwood
“ I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills. Margaret Atwood
“ I thought, men who changed their names were likely to be con-men, criminals, undercover agents or magicians, whereas women who changed their names were probably just married. Margaret Atwood
“ I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated… Margaret Atwood
