Quotes from Margaret Atwood
Me, it's the heart: that's the part lacking. I used to want one: a dainty cushion of red silk dangling from a blood ribbon, fit for sticking pins in. But I've changed my mind. Hearts hurt. — Margaret Atwood, from "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage ," Dearly: New Poems (Ecco, 2020)
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Sorry solves nothing.
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On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. He has no talent for monotony.
- Margaret Atwood
Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
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Sleeping in your clothes makes you tired. The clothes are crumpled, and also your body underneath them. I feel as if I've been rolled into a bundle and thrown on the floor.
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It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time. Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control.
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
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Forbidden things are open to the imagination.
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We can see through all your disguises: the paths of day, the paths of darkness, whichever paths you take - we're right behind you, following you like a trail of smoke, like a long tail, a tail made of girls, heavy as memory, light as air: twelve accusations, toes skimming the ground, hands tied behind our backs, tongues sticking out, eyes bulging, songs choked in our throats.
- Margaret Atwood
Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.
- Margaret Atwood
From this distance it does resemble fun. Fun is not knowing how it will end.
- Margaret Atwood
Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?
- Margaret Atwood