“ They were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. Margaret Atwood
“ Her body feels different, no longer taut and sinewy but sponge-like fluid. Saturated. It has a different energy, a deep orangy-like pink, like the inside of a hibiscus. Margaret Atwood
“ You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the win… Margaret Atwood
“ You don’t understand much, he says. Why do you think I was lost in the impenetrable forest in the first place? Margaret Atwood
“ When I was younger, imagining age, I would think, Maybe you appreciate things more when you don't have much time left. I forgot to include the loss of energy. Some days I do appreciate things more, eg… Margaret Atwood
“ What would that be like - to long, to yearn for someone who is right there before your eyes, day in and day out? Margaret Atwood
“ What could he have done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the small picture, so much. Margaret Atwood
“ We're all watching him. It's the one thing we can really do, and it is not for nothing: if he were to falter, fail, or die, what would become of us? No wonder he's like a boot, hard on the outside, gi… Margaret Atwood
“ Up You wake up filled with dreadThere seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can’t get out of bed. It’s something about the crumpled sheetshanging over the… Margaret Atwood
“ Time comes in waves here, a sickness, oneday after the other rolling on;I move up, it’s called awake, then down into the uneasynights but neverforward. Margaret Atwood
“ This is perhaps why Dante chooses the poet Virgil to be his guide in the Inferno; in visiting a strange location, it's always best to go with someone who's been there before, and – most important of a… Margaret Atwood
“ They say:Speak for us (to whom?)Some say: Avenge us (on whom?)Some say: Take our place.Some say: WitnessOthers say (and these are women)Be happy for us. Margaret Atwood
“ The theory was that while in a Fallow state you were gathering and conserving strength, nourishing yourself through meditation, sending invisible rootlets out into the universe. Margaret Atwood
“ The story of Zenia ought to begin when Zenia began. It must have been someplace long ago and distant in space, thinks Tony; someplace bruised, and very tangled. A European print, hand-tinted, ochre-co… Margaret Atwood
“ So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in th… Margaret Atwood
“ Lighting a fire is an act of renewal, of beginning, and she doesn't want to begin, she wants to continue. No: she wants to go back. Margaret Atwood
“ It was Crake preserving his dignity, because the alternative would have been losing it. Margaret Atwood
“ It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here. Now it's a whisper from the past. Is that what writing amounts to… Margaret Atwood
“ Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice? Margaret Atwood
“ Instead I will say, Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths. These are worth it. These… Margaret Atwood
