More quotes by Margaret Atwood

"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?"
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love."
"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."