“ She'd learned a lot of things from Zeb in his Urban Bloodshed Limitation classes: in Zeb's view, the first bloodshed to be limited should be your own. Margaret Atwood
“ She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her… Margaret Atwood
“ She was an infallible prophetess, and these powers came from her ability to look into the patterns of the universe. Margaret Atwood
“ She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two. Margaret Atwood
“ She doesn't make speeches anymore. She has become speechless. She stays in her home, but it doesn't seem to agree with her. How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word. Margaret Atwood
“ She breathes in the cold air; pellets of blown ice whip against her face. The wind’s getting up, as the TV said it would. Nonetheless there’s something brisk about being out in the storm, something en… Margaret Atwood
“ Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. Margaret Atwood
“ One boy had drawn a perfect isosceles triangle on every single page- meticulously, it was emphasized. Meticulously was a chilling touch: meticulousness, we knew, was just one step away from full-blown… Margaret Atwood
“ One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other. Margaret Atwood
“ Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The mem… Margaret Atwood
“ On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation. If it were eating it would be gluttony of the famished;… Margaret Atwood
“ On the whole she fares better with the men, if they can work their way past the awkward preliminaries; if they can avoid calling her little lady, or saying they weren't expecting her to be so feminine… Margaret Atwood
“ On the way home from school we go to the record store... [Cordelia] expects me to roll my eyes in ecstasy, the way she does; she expects me to groan. She knows the rituals, she knows how we're suppose… Margaret Atwood
“ On the other hand, she had an uncanny resistance to physical pain: if she burnt her mouth or cut herself, as a rule she didn't cry. It was ill will, the ill will of the universe, that distressed her. Margaret Atwood
“ Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I'm a cloud, congealed around a center object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Insi… Margaret Atwood
“ None of this happens, of course. Or it does happen, but not so you would notice. It happens in another dimension of space. Margaret Atwood
