Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) American poet, author, journalist, editor
Are the Children at Home.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Stalin found out about the community and sent his thugs in, just a few days before I got there, to break all of their arms! That was worse than killing them! It was a horrible sight, Oskar: their arms in crude splints, straight in front of them like zombies! They couldn't feed themselves, because they couldn't get their hands to their mouths! So you know what they did!" "They starved?" "They fed each other! That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!" I don't believe in the afterlife.”
"Neither do I, but I believe in the story."
Mr. Black talking with Oskar
"Heavier Boots" (p. 142)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
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“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”
Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 194-195)
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Context: (She is reciting the Lord’s prayer) Now we come to forgiveness. Don’t worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don’t let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
