“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood
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The Year of the Flood is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, the second book of her dystopian trilogy, released on September 22, 2009 in Canada and the United States, and on September 7, 2009, in the United Kingdom. The novel was mentioned in numerous newspaper review articles looking forward to notable fiction of 2009.The book focuses on a religious sect called the God's Gardeners, a small community of survivors of the same biological catastrophe depicted in Atwood's earlier novel Oryx and Crake. The earlier novel contained several brief references to the group.
“You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.”
Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood
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“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood
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“How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.”
Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood
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“Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine! Mine!”
Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood
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