“ But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more. Margaret Atwood
“ But all my love ever came to was a bad end. Red-hot shoes, barrels studded with nails. That's what it feels like, unrequited love. Margaret Atwood
“ But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. Margaret Atwood
“ But I’m ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it’s false news, it must mean something. We Margaret Atwood
“ But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained. Margaret Atwood
“ Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take… Margaret Atwood
“ At school, he enacted a major piece of treachery against his parents. His right hand was Evil Dad, and his left was Righteous Mom. Evil Dad blustered and theorized and dished out pompous bullshit. Rig… Margaret Atwood
“ As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before. Like stage magic, knowledge before you knew it took place before your very eyes, but you were… Margaret Atwood
“ As for you, she'd say to me, you're just a backlash. Flash in the pan. History will absolve me. But Margaret Atwood
“ Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain. Margaret Atwood
“ And yes, I know it’s you; and that is what we will come to, sooner or later, when it’s even darker than It is now, when the snow is colder, when it’s darkest and coldest and candles are no longer… Margaret Atwood
“ And then everything went on very quietly for a fortnight, says Dr. Jordan. He is reading aloud from my confession.Yes Sir, it did, I say. More or less quietly.What is everything? How did it go on?I be… Margaret Atwood
“ And the Internet was such a jumble of false and true factoids that no one believed what was on it any more, or else they believed all of it, which amounted to the same thing. Margaret Atwood
“ And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did. Margaret Atwood
“ Alone is how she feels, alone is how she'll always be. You're used to solitude, she tells herself. Be a stoic.Then she's enfolded.She'd waited so long, she'd given up waiting. She'd longed for this, a… Margaret Atwood
“ All Souls’ Eve, when the spirits of the dead will come back to the living, dressed as ballerinas and Coke bottles and spacemen and Mickey Mice, and the living will give them candy to keep them from tu… Margaret Atwood
“ After the wolvogs have gone he lies on his back on the platform, gazing up at the stars through the gently moving leaves. They seem close, the stars, but they’re far away. Their light is millions, bil… Margaret Atwood
