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Margaret Atwood Quotes

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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that’s wrong. They know less, that’s why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it’s the same kind of hunger  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) I’m a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) When they’re gone out of his head, these words, they’ll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she’s actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it’s used for baby girls. It’s a wonder the military hasn’t got on to this  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) Maybe the life I think I’m living is a paranoid delusion... Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don’t consider that  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) There’s something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you’re still alive  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn’t be that hard  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) The young habitually mistake lust for love, they’re infested with idealism of all kinds  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) If he wants to be an asshole, it’s a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction  (Margaret Atwood Quotes) You think I’m not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you’ll burn  (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
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