1,705 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked

I wanted happy endings in those days, and happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked and going to sleep during the rampages.

On the palm of my hand there's a disaster. I must have been born with it. I carry it with me wherever I go.

I do have a life,' says Charis, blinking wet eyes.'You have a rich inner life,' says Tony firmly. 'More than most.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Having long ago whispered I want to die, I now realize that this wish will indeed be fulfilled, and sooner rather than later. No matter that I've changed my mind about it.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken. Like a hollow log, a drum, a church, it was amplified, so that conversations whispered in it sixty years ago can be half-heard today.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.