More quotes by Margaret Atwood

"War is what happens when language fails."
"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."
"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?"
"You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye"