Margaret Atwood Surfacing Quotes

I opened myself to your silences. ~ Margaret Atwood

This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go. ~ Margaret Atwood

Nobody is any authority of the fucks other people give. ~ Margaret Atwood

Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. ~ Margaret Atwood

He was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female. ~ Margaret Atwood

If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder. ~ Margaret Atwood

Mitch looks in her direction. He can't meet her eyes. It's as if she's semi-invisible, a kind of hovering blur. ~ Margaret Atwood

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you. ~ Margaret Atwood

I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices. ~ Margaret Atwood

Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times. ~ Margaret Atwood

But Jimmy, you should know. All sex is real. ~ Margaret Atwood

God be with you is not an unmixed blessing. ~ Margaret Atwood

We've learned to see the world in gasps. ~ Margaret Atwood

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud. ~ Margaret Atwood

Gain ten pounds and they put you in Solitary. ~ Margaret Atwood

If you can't stop the waves, go sailing. ~ Margaret Atwood

Nothing wrecks your nails like a lethal pandemic plague, ~ Margaret Atwood

Curiosity got the cat in trouble. Let's go. ~ Margaret Atwood

Oh Toby," says the Craker boy, "what sickness do ~ Margaret Atwood

Ill winds blow far and find a ready welcome. ~ Margaret Atwood

As a species we're doomed by hope, then? ~ Margaret Atwood

You can't lead if no one will follow. ~ Margaret Atwood

Language divides us into fragments, I wanted to be whole. ~ Margaret Atwood

In the moment just before giving, I am loved. ~ Margaret Atwood

At the outset Verna had not intended to kill anyone. ~ Margaret Atwood

Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last ~ Margaret Atwood

Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them? ~ Margaret Atwood

There are no lawyers anymore, and the university is closed. ~ Margaret Atwood

For once in their lives, they loved themselves. ~ Margaret Atwood

Fuck, thinks Stan. She knows about the chickens. ~ Margaret Atwood

Languor is a more efficient method of control. ~ Margaret Atwood

Your baby can double as a lawn mower. ~ Margaret Atwood

Pearls are congealed oyster spit. ~ Margaret Atwood

There is nothing more onerous than enforced gratitude. ~ Margaret Atwood

Petchenegs versus Byzantium, said Jimmy, one memorable day. ~ Margaret Atwood

I hunger to commit the act of touch. ~ Margaret Atwood

Are there stars? he asks her. She nods. ~ Margaret Atwood

There is never only one, of anyone ~ Margaret Atwood

Never underestimate the value of superior hair as a literary influence. ~ Margaret Atwood

This bug is something new though. We've got the bioprint. ~ Margaret Atwood

When you are sad it is best to change the subject. ~ Margaret Atwood

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing. ~ Margaret Atwood

Nobody has any authority on the fucks that other people give. ~ Margaret Atwood

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently. A ~ Margaret Atwood

Hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. ~ Margaret Atwood

People always forget about prophecies unless they come true. ~ Margaret Atwood

He'll find out somehow, because journeys end in lovers meeting. ~ Margaret Atwood

One of them had been limited to nouns, verbs, and roaring. ~ Margaret Atwood

What was about this that made us feel we deserved it? ~ Margaret Atwood

The Fall was ongoing, but its trajectory led ever downward. Sucked ~ Margaret Atwood

It's amazing what denial can do. ~ Margaret Atwood

It's better to hope than mope! ~ Margaret Atwood

They blink and reality shivers. ~ Margaret Atwood

oil paints...the look of licked lips. ~ Margaret Atwood

Nobody nowhere knows what time it is. ~ Margaret Atwood

Amazing how quickly the past becomes idyllic. ~ Margaret Atwood

Female artists are biologically confused," said Crake. ~ Margaret Atwood

Sanity is a valuable possession. ~ Margaret Atwood

I am in love with his need ~ Margaret Atwood

Inside the peach, there is a stone. ~ Margaret Atwood

The body is pure energy, solidifed light. ~ Margaret Atwood

The bell that measures time is ringing ~ Margaret Atwood

Never trust a man with new clothes. ~ Margaret Atwood

Roz added sheep to Heaven. They would be outside the window, naturally. ~ Margaret Atwood

I planted him in this country
like a flag ~ Margaret Atwood

Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence? ~ Margaret Atwood

This at least hasn't changed, the way men caress good cars. ~ Margaret Atwood

A wall that cannot be defended is no sooner built than ended. ~ Margaret Atwood

How I wasted them, those rooms, that freedom from being seen. Rented ~ Margaret Atwood

The world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. ~ Margaret Atwood

For so much time, our history
was written in bones only. ~ Margaret Atwood

What confronts us, now the excitement's over, is our own failure. ~ Margaret Atwood

There are some things that do not fare well in high definition. ~ Margaret Atwood

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy. ~ Margaret Atwood

February, month of despair,
with a skewered heart in the centre. ~ Margaret Atwood

What he wants is intimacy, but I can't give him that. ~ Margaret Atwood

Canlit might not exert the fascination of - say - a venereal wart. ~ Margaret Atwood

Powerful men don't take well to rejection. Rage could result. There ~ Margaret Atwood

Sometimes there would be couples, arm in arm - laughing, happy, amorous. Victims of an enormous fraud, and at the same time its perpetrators, or so I felt. ~ Margaret Atwood

We would like to hear the story of Fuck," says Abraham Lincoln politely. ~ Margaret Atwood

I was tired of her getting away with being so young. ~ Margaret Atwood

My audience is God,
because who the hell else could understand me? ~ Margaret Atwood

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both. ~ Margaret Atwood

Women can't hold property anymore, she said. It's a new law. ~ Margaret Atwood

Powerful but insecure men don't take well to rejection. Rage could result. ~ Margaret Atwood

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust. ~ Margaret Atwood

hippo. Like something that basks, anyway. Even her knitting is going better than ~ Margaret Atwood

But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is ~ Margaret Atwood

Once they tried to save something, others or their own souls. ~ Margaret Atwood

Dishtowels are the same as they always were. Sometimes these flashes of normality ~ Margaret Atwood

An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it. The ~ Margaret Atwood

Left lipstick imprints the shape of grateful, rubbery sighs ... ~ Margaret Atwood

Not knowing makes it worse. I ~ Margaret Atwood

Canada is built on dead beavers. ~ Margaret Atwood

Serena has begun to cry. I ~ Margaret Atwood

Hell we can make for ourselves. ~ Margaret Atwood

Freedom, like everything else, is relative. ~ Margaret Atwood

I'm bad at picking heroes. ~ Margaret Atwood

He throws out radiance, it must be reflected sun. Why isn't everyone staring? ~ Margaret Atwood

There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak. "Yes, ~ Margaret Atwood