Margaret Atwood Quotes

“I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:stupidity

“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:nature

“He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:future past present

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:writing children

“More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:loneliness

“But unshed tears can turn you rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:memory

“It wasn’t so easy, though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:war

“The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing, sooner or later.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:war

“When you’re young, you think everything you do is disposable.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:youth

“This is the middle of my life. I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I’m supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience...”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:experience

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