Margaret Atwood

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love #see #speak #love

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#fear #insanity #sanity #voices #sanity

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#women #vanity

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#extremism #fanaticism #god #inhumanity #justification

Never pray for justice, because you might get some. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#get #justice #might #never #pray

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#hope #insatiability #talent

There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#freedom

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#habit #addiction

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#humor #humor

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#spring