“ There were still newspapers, then. We used to read them in bed. It's French, he said. From . Help Me. Margaret Atwood
“ There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling broadly. , is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hardshelled, firmly closed. Margaret Atwood
“ Then I find I'm not ashamed after all. I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there. Margaret Atwood
“ The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns. They haven't yet learned about existence through time. Margaret Atwood
“ The tension between her lack of control and her attempt to suppress it is horrible. It's like a fart in church. Margaret Atwood
“ The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the hedges and weeds grow up, to allow the doors to rust sh… Margaret Atwood
“ The question about the page is: what is beneath it? It seems to have only two dimensions, you can pick it up and turn it over and the back is the same as the front. Nothing, you say, disappointed.But… Margaret Atwood
“ The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains. Margaret Atwood
“ The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Margaret Atwood
“ The ochre-yellow linoleum floor hasn't been scrubbed for some time; splotches of dirt bloom on it like grey pressed flowers. Margaret Atwood
“ The lock splits. The iron gate swings open. She emerges, raises her arms towards the suddenly chilled moon. The world changes. Margaret Atwood
“ The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a sl… Margaret Atwood
“ The Adams and the Eves used to say, We are what we eat, but I prefer to say, we are what we wish. Because if you can't wish, why bother? Margaret Atwood
“ That was the original idea, but once you’ve got a controlled population with a wall around it and no oversight, you can do anything you want. Margaret Atwood
“ That image - of a little child being suffocated, or almost suffocated, by others who thought the whole thing was a game - melded with the furtive nocturnal slugs, and my solitary pacing and singing, a… Margaret Atwood
“ Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories. Margaret Atwood
“ Sometimes she would cry. I was so lonely, she'd say. You have no idea how lonely I was. And I had friends, I was a lucky one, but I was lonely anyway.I admired my mother in some ways, although things… Margaret Atwood
“ Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used… Margaret Atwood
