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Margaret Atwood

" The truly fearless think of themselves as normal. "

Margaret Atwood

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" I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. "

Margaret Atwood

Love , Obsession

" How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste. "

Margaret Atwood

Love , Humor

" A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon? "

Margaret Atwood

Love , Poetry

" Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love. "

Margaret Atwood

Love , Hatred

" Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made. "

Margaret Atwood

Love

" How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next‚Äîif you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions‚Äîyou'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. "

Margaret Atwood

Despair

" She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they‚Äôd loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin? "

Margaret Atwood

Chaos , Loss

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

Margaret Atwood

Love , Blind

" What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be. "

Margaret Atwood

Forgiveness

" The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love. "

Margaret Atwood

Love

" If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? "

Margaret Atwood

Love

" A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness. "

Margaret Atwood

Home , Life

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