Margaret Atwood Quotes

“Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:love

“Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:love

“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings, then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:love time

“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession, with undertones of nausea.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:love

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing what ever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is...”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:love darkness

“What is it that 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.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:love forgiveness listening

“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they’re infested with idealism of all kinds.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:love

“people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

topic:life meaning

“To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again, said the ancient Egyptians: not always what one might wish.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:death

“On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:death

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