“ So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the… Margaret Atwood
“ So many crucial events take place behind people’s backs, when they aren’t in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance. Margaret Atwood
“ Sleeping in your clothes makes you tired. The clothes are crumpled, and also your body underneath them. I feel as if I've been rolled into a bundle and thrown on the floor. Margaret Atwood
“ She’s wearing her hair in a bun, like a ballerina’s. Buns are so sexy. They used to be a treat to take apart: it was like opening a gift. Heads with the hair pulled back into buns are so elegant and c… Margaret Atwood
“ She's been a distraction for him, but not a necessity of life. More like a super-strong mint: intense while it lasted, but quickly finished. Margaret Atwood
“ She'd stepped out of sex as if out of a loose dress. Now she was brisk, decisive, no nonsense. Margaret Atwood
“ She was so pliable. He could do anything with her, arrange her as he pleased, and she would say yes. Not just yes. Oh yes! Margaret Atwood
“ She wants to jig and amble, she wants to lisp, she wants to suck the last slurp of essence out of his almost-voided cranium. Avaunt, wanton! Margaret Atwood
“ She sees where she is, she's here, by herself, she's stranded in the future. She doesn't know how to get back. Margaret Atwood
“ She rents herself a large, empty apartment on the top floor of a house. She has no long-term plans. At night she listens to the radio and cooks subsistence meals, and cries onto her plate. Margaret Atwood
“ She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible. Margaret Atwood
“ She is about to add, I have scars, inside me, but she stops herself. What is a scar, Oh Toby? That would be the next question. Then she'd have to explain what a scar is. A scar is like writing on your… Margaret Atwood
“ She doesn’t have to stay locked into place, into this mournful, drawn-out, low-grade misery. She has all kinds of choices and possibilities, and the only thing that’s keeping her away from them is lac… Margaret Atwood
“ She did not believe he was a monster. He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, offkey, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and… Margaret Atwood
“ She began to fret about God's exact location. It was the Sunday-school teacher's fault: God is everywhere, she'd said, and Laura wanted to know: was God in the sun, was God in the moon, was God in the… Margaret Atwood
“ Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light. Margaret Atwood
“ Pienso en todas las cosas que se han escrito sobre mí: que soy un demonio inhumano, que soy una víctima inocente de un sinvergüenza que me forzó en contra de mi voluntad y con riesgo de mi propia vida… Margaret Atwood
