Margaret Atwood quotes - page 10

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings... but there's something dead about it, something deserted. (Margaret Atwood)
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God. View quote
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EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play? View quote
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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. View quote
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At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone. View quote
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I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. View quote
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Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf. View quote
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You can't buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. "Everything has a price. View quote
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I'm not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it. View quote
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All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it. View quote
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Her glass wings are gone. (Margaret Atwood)
Madness is only an amplification of what you already are. View quote
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Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn't happened this morning, either. View quote
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How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word. View quote
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Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently. View quote
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You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you. View quote
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One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive? View quote
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Inside the peach, there is a stone. View quote
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Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far? View quote
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We love each other, that's true whatever it means, but we aren't good at it; for some it's a talent, for others only an addiction. View quote
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i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow-written on, rewritten, smoothed over. (Margaret Atwood)
If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say. View quote
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What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light? View quote
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You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can't get me out of the story. I'm the plot, babe, and don't ever forget it. View quote
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Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words. View quote
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