“ Maybe that was the real Bernice, I thought - kind and innocent. Maybe she was truly like that inside, and all the fighting we used to do and all her sharp and unpleasant edges - that was her way of st… Margaret Atwood
“ Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and can be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing. Margaret Atwood
“ Lying, says MacKenzie. A severe term, surely. Has she been lying to you, you ask? Let me put it this way—did Scheherazade lie? Not in her own eyes; indeed, the stories she told ought never to be subje… Margaret Atwood
“ Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain hose distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself. Weep...I sit in the chair and ooze… Margaret Atwood
“ Let’s pretend this, let’s pretend that. They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. Margaret Atwood
“ Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words. Margaret Atwood
“ Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control. I was stunned. Everyone was, I know that. It was hard to believe. The entire government, gone like that. How did they get in, how did i… Margaret Atwood
“ Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him. Margaret Atwood
“ It’s the unbroken calm, both within and without, that is getting to her. Real events happen to people, she thinks, why not me? And then there’s her conviction that they are happening, all around her,… Margaret Atwood
“ It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read anyway. Margaret Atwood
“ It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words. Margaret Atwood
“ It would make me feel that I have power. But such a feeling would be an illusion, and too risky. Margaret Atwood
“ It was hard to believe. The entire government, gone like that. How did they get in, how did it happen? That was when they suspended the Constitution. Margaret Atwood
“ It is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends. Margaret Atwood
“ It hasn't escaped me that the object that keeps me alive is the same one that will kill me. In this way it's like love, or a certain kind of it. Margaret Atwood
“ It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten? Margaret Atwood
“ Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now. We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the sa… Margaret Atwood
