Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Eleanor « Peggy » Atwood, née le 18 novembre 1939 à Ottawa, Ontario, est une romancière, poétesse et critique littéraire canadienne. Elle est l'un des écrivains canadiens les plus connus, en particulier pour son roman The Handmaid's Tale, publié en français en 1987, sous le titre La Servante écarlate et adapté au cinéma et en série en 2017.

Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
The Blind Assassin
“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 143)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“I am not your justification for existence.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
Margaret Atwood livre Alias Grace
Source: Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Year of the Flood
Source: The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.”
Margaret Atwood livre Cat's Eye
Source: Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood livre Surfacing
Surfacing (1972) p. 107 <br class="br">The premise for this quote is now known to be a linguistic myth stemming from the early 20th century work of Franz Boas. This quote by Atwood has been cited as an example of the perpetuation of this myth https://books.google.ca/books/about/White_Lies_about_the_Inuit.html?id=i-osjdNH3g8C. <br class="br">Variante: The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 7 (pp. 39-40)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”
Margaret Atwood livre Cat's Eye
Source: Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale