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“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“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.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.”

Margaret Atwood

“They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“To want is to have a weakness.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“Modesty is invisibility… Never forget it. To be seen—to be—is to be… penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“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.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: The Tent

“Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.”

Margaret Atwood book The Penelopiad

Source: The Penelopiad

“In the end, we'll all become stories.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: Moral Disorder and Other Stories

“They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.”

Margaret Atwood book Surfacing

Source: Surfacing