"But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life."
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Margaret Atwood
14 quotes
Quotes by Margaret Atwood
"Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow."
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
"You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye"
"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."
"A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?"
"A word after a word after a word is power."
"Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs."
"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love."
"A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?"
"A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?"
"So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what."
"War is what happens when language fails."
"You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye"