“ You want your decisions taken away from you so you won’t be responsible for your own actions? Margaret Atwood
“ You shouldn’t have forged my handwriting, I said to Laura privately. I couldn’t forge Richard’s. It’s too different from ours. Yours was a lot easier. Handwriting is a personal thing. It’s like steali… Margaret Atwood
“ Yes, they know her. They touch her lips, gather her words, fly away with the message, disappear into the dark. Pass through the membrane that separates this world from the unseen world that lies just… Margaret Atwood
“ When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords… Margaret Atwood
“ When any civilization is dust and ashes, he said, art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that. Margaret Atwood
“ What's the difference between vision and a vision? The former relates to something it's assumed you've seen, the latter to something it's assumed you haven't. Language is not always dependable either. Margaret Atwood
“ What's dangerous in the hands of the multitudes, he said, with what may or may not have been irony, is safe enough for those whose motives are...Beyond reproach, I said.He nodded gravely. Impossible t… Margaret Atwood
“ What would you like to read tonight? he says. This too has become routine. So far I’ve been through a Mademoiselle magazine, an old Esquire from the eighties, a Ms., a magazine I can remember vaguely… Margaret Atwood
“ We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are only looking at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you. Margaret Atwood
“ Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she fee… Margaret Atwood
“ Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers. Margaret Atwood
“ Though it’s hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She’s too immersed in the present: Margaret Atwood
“ This puts him in an instructive mood, and I can see he is going to teach me something, which gentlemen are fond of doing. Margaret Atwood
“ There was always that shadowy twin, thin when i was fat, fat when i was thin, myself in silvery narrative... Margaret Atwood
