More 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."
"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."
"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."