“You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye”

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye" by Margaret Atwood?
Margaret Atwood photo
Margaret Atwood 348
Canadian writer 1939

Related quotes

Ted Hughes photo

“I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.”

Ted Hughes (1930–1998) English poet and children's writer

"Hawk Roosting", line 1
Lupercal (1960)

Ovid photo

“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.

Ovid book Heroides

Book III, line 425
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Source: Heroides
Context: Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Adolf Eichmann photo

“Over the years I learned which hooks to use to catch which fish.”

Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer

Audiotape recording of Eichmann in Argentina (1957), as quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth (2015). ISBN 978-0307950161.

Laura Ingalls Wilder photo
Richelle Mead photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Philip K. Dick photo

“The vidphone company let me off the hook.”

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author

Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 12 (p. 132)

Molière photo

“Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.”

Source: Tartuffe

Rodney Dangerfield photo

Related topics