You know I love you. You're the only one."
"She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.
Tags: love lies manipulation amorality
There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning, and was never the same as the hands that were on us there and then, in the small of the back, or out back, in the parking lot, or in the television room with the sound turned down and only the pictures flickering over lifting flesh. We yearned for the future How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
Margaret AtwoodTags: future sex loneliness yearning insatiability
She is about to add, "I have scars, inside me," but she stops herself. What is a scar, Oh Toby? That would be the next question. Then she'd have to explain what a scar is. A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out.
Margaret AtwoodPeople change, though, especially after they are dead.
Margaret AtwoodTags: identity idealism reflection hindsight reputation impressions redefine redefining
They blink and reality shivers.
Margaret AtwoodTags: the-saints
Once they tried to save something, others or their own souls.
Margaret AtwoodTags: the-saints
I’ve been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence.
Margaret AtwoodThough I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.
You could not believe I was more than your echo.
Tags: poetry feminism greek-mythology mythology
You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
Tags: poetry relationships
The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret AtwoodTags: love
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