1,705 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye

Uno no puede evitar sentir lo que siente, dijo Moira una vez, pero puede reparar sus actos.

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?

What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be.

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Kill what you can't savewhat you can't eat throw outwhat you can't throw out buryWhat you can't bury give awaywhat you can't give away you must carry with you,it is always heavier than you thought.