“ You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets, not that he'd thought much about them at the time. Margaret Atwood
“ You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just thrash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out. Margaret Atwood
“ You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t e… Margaret Atwood
“ Women can't add, he once said, jokingly. When I asked him what he meant, he said, For them, one and one and one and one don't make four. What do they make? I said, expecting five or three. Just one an… Margaret Atwood
“ Why do you want to talk about ugly things? she said. Her voice was silvery, like a music box. She waved one hand in the air to dry the nails. We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can.… Margaret Atwood
“ When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of thi… Margaret Atwood
“ What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Margaret Atwood
“ What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time! Margaret Atwood
“ We wait, the clock in the hall ticks, Serena lights another cigarette, I get into the car. It’s a Saturday morning, it’s a September, we still have a car. Other people have had to sell theirs. My name… Margaret Atwood
“ We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing Margaret Atwood
“ Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake’s view. Next they’d be inventing idols, and funer… Margaret Atwood
“ They say, Grace, why don’t you ever smile or laugh, we never see you smiling, and I say I suppose Miss I have gotten out of the way of it, my face won’t bend in that direction any more. Margaret Atwood
“ They did not set out to disappoint their father, not on purpose, but neither did they wish to shoulder the lumpy, enervating burden of the mundane. Margaret Atwood
“ There is the staircase,there is the sun.There is the kitchen,the plate with toast and strawberry jam,your subterfuge,your ordinary mirage.You stand red-handed.You want to wash yourself in earth, in ro… Margaret Atwood
“ There is only so much manpower and tax revenue that can be devoted to riot control, to social surveillance, to chasing fast youths down dark alleyways, to fire-hosing and pepper-spraying suspicious-lo… Margaret Atwood
