Margaret Atwood

Quotes

• “So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in betwe...”
• “Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance...”
• “But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of...”
• “Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall wa...”
• “Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the sno...”
• “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
• “The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”
• “A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?”
• “You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye”
• “A word after a word after a word is power.”
• “War is what happens when language fails.”