“ To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole. Margaret Atwood
“ She's just jealous, people say, as if jealousy is something minor. But it's not, it's the worst, it's the worst feeling there is - incoherent and confused and shameful, and at the same time self-right… Margaret Atwood
“ Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. Margaret Atwood
“ …Homo sapiens doesn’t seem able to cut himself off at the supply end. He’s one of the few species that doesn’t limit reproduction in the face of dwindling resources. In other words - and up to a point… Margaret Atwood
“ Το νερό δεν αντιστέκεται. Το νερό ρέει. Όταν βυθίζεις το χέρι σου μέσα του, το μόνο που νιώθεις είν' ένα χάδι. Το νερό δεν είναι στέρεος τοίχος και δεν σε σταματάει. Όμως πηγαίνει όπου θέλει να πάει κ… Margaret Atwood
“ Recently returned from Boston, where she was staying with her Aunt, to broaden her education. She has turned out a charming young woman, everything one might wish for, and displayed a courtesy and gen… Margaret Atwood
“ It was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lig… Margaret Atwood
“ Buttons were made from wood and bone, and the fancier ones from cow horns. These last two materials could be obtained for next to nothing from the several abattoirs in the vicinity, and as for the woo… Margaret Atwood
“ At last you, will say(maybe without speaking)(there are mountains inside your skullgarden and chaos, oceanand hurricane; certaincorners of rooms, portraitsof great-grandmothers, curtainsof a particula… Margaret Atwood
“ And each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing. Margaret Atwood
“ A shocking 40 percent of the population in this region is jobless, with 50 percent of those being under twenty-five. That’s a recipe for systems breakdown, right there: for anarchy, for chaos, for the… Margaret Atwood
“ [Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connota… Margaret Atwood
“ [A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective. Margaret Atwood
“ You’re clear, Mr. Duke. Grins from both of them. What could Felix possibly be suspected of smuggling, a harmless old thespian like him? It’s the words that should concern you, he thinks at them. That’… Margaret Atwood
“ Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself. Margaret Atwood
“ You're sad because you're sad.It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.Go see a shrink or take a pill,or hug your sadness like an eyeless dollyou need to sleep.Well, all children are sadbut some get… Margaret Atwood
“ You're not my real parents, every child has thought. I'm not your real child. But with orphans, it's true. What freedom, to thumb your nose authentically! Margaret Atwood
“ You will flicker in these wordsand in the words of othersfor a while and then go out.Even if I send them,you will never get these letters.Even if I see you again,I will never see you again. Margaret Atwood
