The Blind Assassin Quotes

“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

“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

“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:truth language

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:truth writing reading

“Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:time sorrow

“Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn’t even know he’s been hurt until much later.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:women hurting

“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

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