“ What mysteries remain to be revealed in the nervous system, that web of structures both material and ethereal, that network of threads that runs throughout the body, composed of a thousand Ariadne’s c… Margaret Atwood
“ What has having a baby got to do with getting a job at an art gallery? You’re always thinking in terms of either/or. The thing is wholeness. Margaret Atwood
“ What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? Margaret Atwood
“ We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility. Margaret Atwood
“ Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour. Margaret Atwood
“ Virginia Woolf said that writing a novel is like walking through a dark room, holding a lantern which lights up what is already in the room anyway. Margaret Atwood
“ Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins. Margaret Atwood
“ Today she wears her habitual expression of strained anxiety; she smells of violets. Margaret Atwood
“ Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in verbal form the sins and crimes of their past lives. Toast… Margaret Atwood
“ To want is to have a weakness. It's this weakness, whatever it is, that entices me. It's like a small crack in a wall, before now impenetrable. Margaret Atwood
“ To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again, said the ancient Egyptians: not always what one might wish. Margaret Atwood
“ To go from a familiar thing, however undesirable, into the unknown, is always a matter for apprehension, and I suppose that is why so many people are afraid to die. Margaret Atwood
“ This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do. Margaret Atwood
“ They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier. Margaret Atwood
“ These words are yours,though you never said them,you never heard them, historybreeds death but if you killit you kill yourself. Margaret Atwood
“ These days I script whole fights, in my head, and the reconciliations afterwards, too. Margaret Atwood
“ There’s something to be said forhunger: at least it lets you know you’re still alive. Margaret Atwood
“ There’s only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you. Margaret Atwood
