Margaret Atwood Quotes

“We understand more than we know.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:knowledge understanding

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

topic:freedom

“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself, through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and snuffles, romance only sighs.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:self romance

“Home is where the heart is”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:heart home

“After everything that’s happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:beauty world

“People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:reality belief

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

topic:pain memory

“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:pain

“some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:pain

“I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can’t even see it,...”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:stupidity

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