“ Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble. Margaret Atwood
“ Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology. Margaret Atwood
“ 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 you remove. Margaret Atwood
“ Thus on Predator Day we meditate on the Alpha Predator aspects of God. The suddenness and ferocity with which an apprehension of the Divine may appear to us; our smallness and fearfulness-may I say, o… Margaret Atwood
“ This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. Margaret Atwood
“ This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions,… Margaret Atwood
“ They wouldn’t know mad when they saw it in any case, because a good portion of the women in the Asylum were no madder than the Queen of England. Many were sane enough when sober, as their madness came… Margaret Atwood
“ They seem close, the stars, but they’re far away. Their light is millions, billions of years out of date. Messages with no sender. Margaret Atwood
“ They had been pathetically eager to have the wedding in the family church. Their reaction though, as far as she could estimate the reactions of people who were now so remote from her, was less elated… Margaret Atwood
“ They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and look… Margaret Atwood
“ These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive. Margaret Atwood
“ These albums were thick with babies, but my replicas thinned out as I grew older, as if the population of my duplicates had been hit with some plague. Margaret Atwood
“ There’s a rug on the floor, oval, of braided rags. This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditi… Margaret Atwood
“ There will never be another caterpillar just like this one. there will never be another such moment of time, another such conjunction. These things sneak up on him for no reason, flashes of irrational… Margaret Atwood
“ There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men w… Margaret Atwood
“ There was also, as it turned out, the dismay of my parents to be reckoned with: their tolerance about caterpillars and beetles and other non-human life forms did not quite extend to artists. Margaret Atwood
“ There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate Margaret Atwood
“ There are things I need to ask her. Not what happened, back then in the time I lost, because now I know that. I need to ask her why. If she remembers. Perhaps she’s forgotten the bad things, what she… Margaret Atwood
“ There are days when I can hardly make it out of bed. I find it an effort to speak. I measure progress in steps, the next one and the next one, as far as the bathroom. These steps are major accomplishm… Margaret Atwood
