“ I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was… Margaret Atwood
“ Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated cows floating by, survivors huddled on rooftops. Thousands have drowned.… Margaret Atwood
“ I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag. Margaret Atwood
“ No wires tender even as nervescan transmit the impact ofour seasons, our catastropheswhile we are closed inside them Margaret Atwood
“ And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself. Margaret Atwood
“ Sauve qui peut. To survivewe’d all turn thiefand rascal, or so says the fox,with her coat of an elegant scoundrel,her white knife of a smile,who knows just where she’s going:to steal somethingthat doe… Margaret Atwood
“ « Stan wants to see them work the facial features, especially the smiles. He has a professional interest, from his job at Dimple. The Empathy Model he’d worked on could smile, but it was the same smil… Margaret Atwood
“ I remember my mean mouth, I remember how wise I thought I was. But I was not wise then. Now I am wise. Margaret Atwood
“ (...) everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at w… Margaret Atwood
“ That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies. Margaret Atwood
“ But if Crake wanted her to stay longer on any given night, do it again maybe, she'd make some excuse—jet lag, a headache, something plausible. Her inventions were seamless, she was the best poker-face… Margaret Atwood
“ Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one. Margaret Atwood
“ A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying Margaret Atwood
“ I need to remember what they look like. I try to hold them still behind my eyes, their faces, like pictures in an album. But they won't stay still for me, they move, there's a smile and it's gone, the… Margaret Atwood
“ Girls did that then – knocked themselves out to support some man’s notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot on the side. O… Margaret Atwood
“ Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn’t as much pressure to present a respect… Margaret Atwood
