Margaret Atwood: Trending quotes (page 4)

“But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”

“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”

“I am not your justification for existence.”

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”

“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”

“If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.”

“Potential has a shelf life.”

“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”

“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”

“You think I'm not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you'll burn.”

“I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”

“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”

“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.”

“The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”

“I feel like the word shatter.”

“I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.”

“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”

“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.”

“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”