“ I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentenc… Margaret Atwood
“ Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having… Margaret Atwood
“ Have they forgotten that I'm in here? They'll have to bring more food, or at least more water, or else I will starve, I will shrivel, my skin will dry out, all yellow like old linen; I will turn into… Margaret Atwood
“ Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drin… Margaret Atwood
“ We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hat… Margaret Atwood
“ I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children. Margaret Atwood
“ There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning, and was never the same as the hands that were on us there and then, in th… Margaret Atwood
“ I beliebe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light. Margaret Atwood
“ Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered. Margaret Atwood
“ Every Canadian has a complicated relationship with the United States, whereas Americans think of Canada as the place where the weather comes from. Margaret Atwood
“ The Loneliness of the Military HistorianConfess: it's my professionthat alarms you.This is why few people ask me to dinner,though Lord knows I don't go out of my way to be scary.I wear dresses of sens… Margaret Atwood
“ To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself--his extra sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalke… Margaret Atwood
“ The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood
“ The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authentic… Margaret Atwood
“ In the daylight we knowwhat’s gone is gone,but at night it’s different.Nothing gets finished,not dying, not mourning; Margaret Atwood
