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“… we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.”

Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“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?”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“Inside the peach, there is a stone.”

Margaret Atwood

“Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.”

Margaret Atwood book The Robber Bride

Source: The Robber Bride

“Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“There is no fool like an educated fool…”

Margaret Atwood book Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

“So much better to travel than to arrive.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.”

Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

“I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.”

Margaret Atwood book The Penelopiad

Source: The Penelopiad

“The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: Moral Disorder and Other Stories

“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.”

Margaret Atwood book Dancing Girls

Source: Dancing Girls

“The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish, drying on sand.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.”

Margaret Atwood book Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

“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.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“Gardening is not a rational act.”

Margaret Atwood

“I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: The Tent (2006)