The Blind Assassin Quotes

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:imagination

“Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:feeling

“She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone—to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:care tyranny

“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we’re still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:existence

“Lose your temper and you lose the fight, Reenie used to say.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:fight

“They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals!”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:worth

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