“ It's daybreak. The break of day. Toby turns this word over: break, broke, broken. What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light… Margaret Atwood
“ It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell. Margaret Atwood
“ It wasn’t just the sex. A dark smile from her: that’s better. You know I love you. You’re the only one. She isn’t the first woman he’s ever said that to. He shouldn’t have used it up so much earlier i… Margaret Atwood
“ It was love, after all,that rubbed the skins from their gray cheeks,crippled their fingers,snarled their hair, brown or dull gold.Hate would merely have smashed them. Margaret Atwood
“ It was a wicked game. Homer, says Snowman, making his way through the dripping-wet vegetation. The Divine Comedy. Greek statuary. Aqueducts. Paradise Lost. Mozart’s music. Shakespeare, complete works.… Margaret Atwood
“ Inside John, she thinks, is another John, who is much nicer. This other John will emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon, a Jack from a box, a pit from a prune, if the first John is only squeezed enoug… Margaret Atwood
“ In their dreams they touch, they intertwine, it's more like a collision, and that is the end of flying. They fall to earth, fouled parachutists, botched and cindery angels, love streaming out behind t… Margaret Atwood
“ In reduced circumstances you have to believe all kinds of things. I believe in thought transference now, vibrations in the ether, that sort of junk. I never used to. Margaret Atwood
“ In front of us, to the right, is the store where we order dresses. Some people call them , a good word for them. Habits are hard to break. Margaret Atwood
“ If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice. Margaret Atwood
“ I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values. You must cultivate poverty… Margaret Atwood
“ I've got nothing against telepathy, said Jane; but the telephone is so much more dependable. Margaret Atwood
“ I would pore for hours over the stalls of worn necklaces, sets of gilt spoons, sugar tongs in the shape of hen's feet or midget hands, clocks that didn't work, flowered china, spotty mirrors and ponde… Margaret Atwood
“ I would like to be found. I would like to see. Or to be seen. I wonder if, in the eye of God, it amounts to the same thing. Margaret Atwood
“ I wish to show you the darkness you are so afraid of. Trust me. This darkness is a place you can enter and be as safe in as you are anywhere; you can put one foot in front of the other and believe the… Margaret Atwood
“ I will say you ... You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in immediate danger, I'll say to you.I'll pretend you can hear me. But its no good, because I know you can't. Margaret Atwood
“ I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. Margaret Atwood
“ I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. I could make it run, push buttons, of one sort or another, ma… Margaret Atwood
