1,705 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the messengers between this world and the other worlds, Pilar had said. Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

I shiver: whose feet are walking on my grave? Time, I plead to the air, just a little more time. That's all I need.

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.

He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you.

But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.

That room has been static for me so long:an emptiness. a void. a silencecontaining an unheard storyready for me to unlock.Let there be plot.

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.