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Alias Grace

Name: Alias Grace
Author: Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace is a novel of historical fiction by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. First published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

“A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.”

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“For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.”

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“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”

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“I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.”

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“I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.”

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“There is no fool like an educated fool…”

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“Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself:. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.”

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“Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed.”

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“People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.”

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