You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just thrash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
Margaret AtwoodShe would be invisible, of course. No one would hear her. And nothing has happened, really, that hasn't happened before.
Margaret AtwoodMore often than not, she acted as if she wanted to protect him, from the image of herself--herself in the past. She liked to keep only the bright side of herself turned towards him. She liked to shine.
Margaret AtwoodHe'd wanted to track down and personally injure anyone who had ever done harm to her or made her unhappy. He'd tortured himself with painful knowledge: every white-hot factoid he could collect he'd shove up under his fingernails. The more it hurt, the more--he was convinced--he loved her.
Margaret AtwoodMaybe it's about who can do what to whom and can be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.
Margaret AtwoodThere had been something willed about it though, his ignorance. Or not willed, exactly: structured. He'd grown up in walled spaces, and then he had become one. He had shut things out.
Margaret AtwoodKnowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
Margaret AtwoodWhat could he have done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the small picture, so much.
Margaret AtwoodWhat he really wanted was revenge. But against whom, and for what? Even if he had the energy for it, even if he could focus and aim, such a thing would be less than useless.
Margaret AtwoodI do not say making love, because this is not what he's doing. Copulating too would be inaccurate, because it would imply two people and only one is involved. Nor does rape cover it: nothing is going on here that I haven't signed up for. There wasn't a lot of choice, but there was some, and this is what I chose.
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