More quotes by Margaret Atwood

"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."
"A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?"
"War is what happens when language fails."
"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."