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
“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Year of the Flood
Source: The Year of the Flood
“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
“I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
“Faith is only a word, embroidered.”
Margaret Atwood livre 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 livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Historical Notes (p. 311)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Contexte: 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.
“You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.”
Margaret Atwood livre 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 livre Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”
Margaret Atwood livre The Penelopiad
Source: The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Margaret Atwood livre Cat's Eye
Variante: Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Source: Cat's Eye (1988)
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
“A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 20 (p. 121)
“Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale