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
“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”
Margaret Atwood livre Lady Oracle
Source: Lady Oracle
“You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.”
Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood livre Lady Oracle
Source: Lady Oracle
“I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.”
Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.”
Margaret Atwood livre Surfacing
Source: Surfacing
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Where do the words go
when we have said them?”
Source: Procedures For Underground
“There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.”
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin
“Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“How were we to know we were happy?”
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Variante: We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 192-193)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Contexte: I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real.
Margaret Atwood livre The Year of the Flood
Source: The Year of the Flood
“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”
Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.”
Margaret Atwood livre The Robber Bride
Source: The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
“So much better to travel than to arrive.”
Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle
Source: The Blind Assassin