45 Quotes About Margaret-atwood

She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels like a stray child, ragged and cold, with her nose pressed to a lighted window. A toy-store window, a bakery window, with fancy cakes and decorated cookies. Poverty prevents her entrance. These things are for other people; nothing for her.

Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?

What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.

I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices.

Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens ["Strange New World," http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/boo...].

He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed.

Sometimes there would be couples, arm in arm—laughing, happy, amorous. Victims of an enormous fraud, and at the same time its perpetrators, or so I felt.

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

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.