Cat's Eye Quotes

“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

“Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:happiness

“Potential has a shelf life.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:time

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:women men forgiveness

“Vanity is becoming a nuisance; I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I’m not ready for that yet.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:women vanity

“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

“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

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