“ He's coming to hate the gratitude of women. It is like being fawned on by rabbits, or like being covered with syrup: you can't get it off. Margaret Atwood
“ He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it. This was one of the most bizarre things that's happened to me, ever. Margaret Atwood
“ From any rational point of view I am absurd; but there are no longer any rational points of view. Margaret Atwood
“ Florida’s not the hick town you keep saying it is, says Reynolds. Times have changed; they’ve got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it! Margaret Atwood
“ Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads. Margaret Atwood
“ Dear Diplodicus; dear Pterosaur; dear Trilobite; dear Mastodon, dear Dodo, dear Great Auk, dear Passenger Pigeon, dear Panda, dear Whooping Crane; and all you countless others who have played in this… Margaret Atwood
“ Daughters of Naiads were a dime a dozen in those days; the place was crawling with them. Nevertheless, it never hurts to be of semi-divine birth. Or it never hurts immediately. Margaret Atwood
“ Congratulations on a good outcome! We’ve all been rooting for you. Charmaine wonders who’s been doing the rooting, because she hasn’t noticed anyone. But like so many things around here, maybe the roo… Margaret Atwood
“ Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had. Margaret Atwood
“ Charis disapproves of crass words like shit. Roz has offered , but Charis rejected it as too babyish. Her alimentary canal products? Tony has suggested. No, that sounds too coldly intellectual, said C… Margaret Atwood
“ By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I… Margaret Atwood
“ But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from. There’s Margaret Atwood
“ But in the closeness of the sewing room, Simon can smell her as well as look at her. He tries to pay no attention but her scent is a distracting undercurrent. She smells like smoke; smoke, and laundry… Margaret Atwood
“ There was little that was truly original or indigenous to Gilead. Its genius was synthesis. Margaret Atwood
“ The argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would perfect him. But those who would perfect him are themselves, by t… Margaret Atwood
“ That's what Hiltler exemplified: not the triumph of evil but the failure of reason. Margaret Atwood
“ If I was a princess, with silver and gold,And loved by a hero, I'd never grow old:Oh, if a young hero came a-marrying me,I'd always be beautiful, happy, and free!Then sail, my fine lady, on the billow… Margaret Atwood
