“ She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice? Margaret Atwood
“ Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her? Margaret Atwood
“ Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times. Margaret Atwood
“ If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder. Margaret Atwood
“ She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it. Margaret Atwood
“ The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's u… Margaret Atwood
“ He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and tha… Margaret Atwood
“ We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hat… Margaret Atwood
“ The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. —the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unha… Margaret Atwood
“ Now I only need to lookout at them through my sky-blue eyes.They see their own ill willstaring them in the foreheadand turn tail. Margaret Atwood
“ Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine. Margaret Atwood
