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