“ With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring. Margaret Atwood
“ She’s a lean vixen: I can seethe ribs, the slytrickster’s eyes, filled with longing and desperation, the skinnyfeet, adept at lies.Why encourage the notionof virtuous poverty?It’s only an excusefor ze… Margaret Atwood
“ You cynical shit," he told himself. Then he started to weep."Don't be so fucking sentimental," Crake used to tell him. But why not? Why shouldn't he be sentimental? It wasn't as if there was anyone ar… Margaret Atwood
“ The past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you can see it as décor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into. Margaret Atwood
“ He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle – that should be his tone. Margaret Atwood
“ I can't remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions. Margaret Atwood
“ After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then. Margaret Atwood
“ Men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit. Margaret Atwood
“ But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are. Margaret Atwood
“ I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies Margaret Atwood
“ He was a dork, a dink, a dong… Why should the male member be used as a term of abuse? No man hated his own dorkdinkdong, quite the opposite. But maybe it was an affront that any other man had one. Tha… Margaret Atwood
“ She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right. Margaret Atwood
“ I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter. Close your eyes and think of England. Margaret Atwood
“ In the old days, trouble was kept in the family, which is still the best place for it, not that there's ever a best place for trouble. Why stir everything up again after that many years, with all conc… Margaret Atwood
“ They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves. Margaret Atwood
“ Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run... Margaret Atwood
“ Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that’s our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecaus… Margaret Atwood
“ As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; an… Margaret Atwood
