“ Behind the studied blankness of her gaze, revolt must have been simmering. I recognized that surliness, that stubbornness, that captive-princess indignation, which must be kept hidden until enough wea… Margaret Atwood
“ At this dim season of the year we hunger for such tales. Winter's tales, they are. We want to huddle round them, as if around a small but cheerful fire... It was the right thing to do on the darkest d… Margaret Atwood
“ At first the solution was to build more prisons and cram more people into them, but that soon became prohibitively expensive. (Here Ed flicks through a few more slides.) Not only that, it resulted in… Margaret Atwood
“ As with so much else, she was convinced that an exception would be made in her case. Margaret Atwood
“ As the architects of Gilead knew, to institute an effective totalitarian system or indeed any system at all you must offer some benefits and freedoms, at least to a privileged few, in return for those… Margaret Atwood
“ As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. If it is face to face, there must be two looking. Margaret Atwood
“ Another of those things that must be true because everyone else agrees they are, although they don’t seem so to me. Margaret Atwood
“ And then I thought: 'It's for a warning,' she continues. You may think a bed is a peaceful thing, sir. For you it may mean rest, and comfort, and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone. Th… Margaret Atwood
“ And the vampires. You used to know where you stood with them – smelly, evil, undead – but now there are virtuous vampires and disreputable vampires, and sexy vampires and glittery vampires, and none o… Margaret Atwood
“ Also, if a man takes pride in his disguise skills, it would be a foolish wife who would claim to recognise him: it's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness… Margaret Atwood
“ All it takes, said Crake, is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one gener… Margaret Atwood
“ After a certain point, the ravages of experience reverse themselves; we put on innocence with advancing age, at least in the minds of others. Margaret Atwood
“ A story is like a letter. Dear You, I'll say. Just you, without a name. Attaching a name attaches you to the world of fact, which is riskier, more hazardous: who knows what the chances are out there,… Margaret Atwood
“ A river shaped her,smoothed her with sand and batteredher against the shore, and sheresisted, she is still here. Margaret Atwood
“ A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. Margaret Atwood
