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“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Faith is only a word, embroidered.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: CAT'S EYE.

“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good.
I know too much to be good. I know myself.
I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be…”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.”

Margaret Atwood book MaddAddam

Source: MaddAddam

“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Historical Notes (p. 311)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Context: As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.

“We understand more than we know.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.”

Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: The Tent

“These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“Ah men,
why do you want
all this attention?
I can write poems for myself, make
love to a doorknob if absolutely
necessary. What do you have to offer me
I can't find otherwise
except humiliation? Which I no longer
need.”

Margaret Atwood