More quotes by Margaret Atwood

"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?"
"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."
"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."
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."