“ It was as if they could read each other’s minds. No, not minds: each other’s mindlessness. Margaret Atwood
“ It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know. Margaret Atwood
“ In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones. — Sufi proverb Margaret Atwood
“ In reality it was like this: Earth was colonized by the Zycronites, who developed the ability to travel from one space dimension to another at a period several millennia after the epoch of which we sp… Margaret Atwood
“ In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself from a bridge, then surely the prostitute, who has shown the mos… Margaret Atwood
“ If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time. Margaret Atwood
“ I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers,… Margaret Atwood
“ I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will. Margaret Atwood
“ I used to jog but it’s bad for the knees. Too much beta caroteneturns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills. Margaret Atwood
“ I thought of myself as an itinerant brain--the equivalent of a strolling player of Elizabethan times, or else a troubadour, clutching my university degree like a cheap lute. Margaret Atwood
“ I reached the privy and emptied the slop pail, and so forth.And so forth, Grace? asks Dr.Jordan.I look at him. Really if he does not know what you do in a privy there is no hope for him.What I did was… Margaret Atwood
“ I open the gallery door, walk in with that sinking feeling I always have in galleries. It’s the carpets that do it to me, the hush, the sanctimoniousness of it all: galleries are too much like churche… Margaret Atwood
“ I never do such things, however. I only consider them. If I did them, they would be sure I had gone mad again. Gone mad is what they say, and sometimes Run mad, as if mad is a direction, like west; as… Margaret Atwood
“ I leafed through all the men I had known to see whether or not I hated them. But then I realized it wasn't the men I hated, it was the Americans, the human beings, men and women both. They'd had their… Margaret Atwood
“ I knelt to examine the floor, and there it was, in tiny writing, quite fresh it seemed, scratched with a pin or maybe just a fingernail, in the corner where the darkest shadow fell: Nolite te bastarde… Margaret Atwood
“ I intend to get out of here. It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forev… Margaret Atwood
“ I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own. Margaret Atwood
