1,705 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

When you alter yourself, the alterations become the truth...

I thought this sort of thing was strictly forbidden,” I say.“Well, officially,” he says. “But everyone’s human, after all.”I wait for him to elaborate on this, but he doesn’t, so I say, “What does that mean?”“It means you can’t cheat Nature,” he says.

Kar Adamı’nın zamanını geçirme yolları bulması giderek zorlaşıyor. Zamanını ha? Ne saçma bir fikir. Sanki ona bir kutu dolusu zaman verilmiş gibi… İçi para niyetine harcayabileceği saatlerle, dakikalarla silme dolu bir kutu. Sorun şu ki, kutuda delikler var. Bu yüzden Kar Adamı ne yaparsa yapsın zaman akıp gidiyor.

In the gap between desire and enactment, noun and verb, intention and infliction, want and have, compassion begins.

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -The water below is as dark as the grave,And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because the real mushroom plant was underground. The parts you could see - what most people called a mushroom - was just a brief apparition. A cloud flower.

I beliebe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

The proper study of Mankind is Everything.