“ From nowhere, a word appears: Mesozoic. He can see the word, he can hear the word, but he can't reach the word. He can't attach anything to it. This is happening too much lately, this dissolution of m… Margaret Atwood
“ For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive. Margaret Atwood
“ For it is not always the one that strikes the blow that is the actual murderer; and Mary was done to death by that unknown gentleman, as surely as if he'd taken the knife and plunged it into her body… Margaret Atwood
“ Fool, he tells himself. She’s not here. She was never here. It was imagination and wishful thinking, nothing but that. Resign yourself. He can’t resign himself. Margaret Atwood
“ Everything is post these days, as is we're all just a footnote to something earlier that was real enough to have a name of its own. Margaret Atwood
“ Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various heights, but each one of them is admirably propor… Margaret Atwood
“ But why bother about the end of the world? It’s the end of the world every day, for someone. Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown. Margaret Atwood
“ But they had a money value: they represented a cash profit to others. They must have sensed that--sensed that they were worth something. Margaret Atwood
“ But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well as most. I wish she were here, so I could tell her I finally know this. Margaret Atwood
“ Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people. Margaret Atwood
“ Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous. Margaret Atwood
“ As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter, as witness the pagan elements in medieva… Margaret Atwood
