The Blind Assassin Quotes

“Home is where the heart is”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:heart home

“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

“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

“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

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