Margaret Atwood quotes - page 4

All it takes,ö said Crake, ôis the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and itÆs game over forever. (Margaret Atwood)
I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I'd turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red. View quote
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After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is. View quote
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Faith is only a word, embroidered. View quote
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One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other. View quote
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As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. View quote
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We understand more than we know. View quote
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A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. View quote
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? View quote
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Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. View quote
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Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers. (Margaret Atwood)
How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. View quote
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I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning. View quote
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Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. View quote
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I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree. View quote
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In my dreams of this city I am always lost. View quote
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Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered. View quote
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Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along. View quote
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They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice. View quote
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It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit. View quote
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There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. (Margaret Atwood)
That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. View quote
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So much better to travel than to arrive. View quote
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I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened. View quote
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But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. View quote
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