Margaret Atwood quotes - page 9

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea. (Margaret Atwood)
I feel like the word shatter. View quote
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People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible. View quote
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Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring. View quote
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I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting. View quote
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If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? View quote
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What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something. View quote
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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. View quote
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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. View quote
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The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don't ever ask for the true story. View quote
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Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen-to be-is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable. (Margaret Atwood)
Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again. View quote
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I was sand, I was snow-written on, rewritten, smoothed over. View quote
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She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy. View quote
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I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose. View quote
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Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized. View quote
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You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone. View quote
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Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be... View quote
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Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe. View quote
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Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? View quote
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I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it. (Margaret Atwood)
Now that I am dead, I know everything. View quote
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Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. View quote
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For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. View quote
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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. View quote
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