Margaret Atwood: Trending quotes (page 11)

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

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

“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?”

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

“Inside the peach, there is a stone.”

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

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

“There is no fool like an educated fool…”

“So much better to travel than to arrive.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Gardening is not a rational act.”

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