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“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”

Margaret Atwood book Lady Oracle

Source: Lady Oracle

“Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: The Tent

“You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

Margaret Atwood

“All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: The Tent

“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.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Her glass wings are gone.”

Margaret Atwood book Lady Oracle

Source: Lady Oracle

“I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.”

Margaret Atwood book Surfacing

Source: Surfacing

“It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“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.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Where do the words go
when we have said them?”

Margaret Atwood

Source: Procedures For Underground

“There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“How were we to know we were happy?”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Variant: We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Kill what you can't save
what you can't eat throw out
what you can't throw out bury

What you can't bury give away
what you can't give away you must carry with you,
it is always heavier than you thought.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: You are Happy

“That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 192-193)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Context: I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real.