“ Why do you want to talk about ugly things? she said. ... We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are looking only at t… Margaret Atwood
“ Where there are wars, there will be crows, the carrion-fanciers. And ravens too, the warbirds, the eyeball gourmands. And vultures, the holy birds of yore, old connoisseurs of rot. Margaret Atwood
“ When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or els… Margaret Atwood
“ When I get out of here, if I'm ever able to set this down, in any form, even in the form of one voice to another, it will be a reconstruction then too, yet another remove. It's impossible to say a thi… Margaret Atwood
“ What pays for all this?Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition. Margaret Atwood
“ What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food! Margaret Atwood
“ What do you want me to do? he whispers into the empty air.It’s hard to know.From habit he lifts his watch; it shows him its blank face.Zero hour, Snowman thinks. Time to go. Margaret Atwood
“ What are we do to? The child sex trade is not for us: our children are unattractive and rude, and - due to the knowledge of our history - have a bad habit of mugging prospective customers and shoving… Margaret Atwood
“ What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a ge… Margaret Atwood
“ What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you liv… Margaret Atwood
“ Well stuff it, Jimmy thought. If he wants to be an asshole it’s a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice. He was annoyed with himself for jabbering and capering, while Crake… Margaret Atwood
“ We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories. Margaret Atwood
“ We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women. Margaret Atwood
“ We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something. Margaret Atwood
“ Vancouver is the suicide capital of the country. You keep going west until you run out. You come to the edge. Then you fall off. Margaret Atwood
