Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run...
Margaret AtwoodBut my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.
Margaret AtwoodIt must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.
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I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.
Margaret AtwoodIn front of us, to the right, is the store where we order dresses. Some people call them habits, a good word for them. Habits are hard to break.
Margaret AtwoodThey wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.
Margaret AtwoodThat is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
Margaret AtwoodIt's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.
Margaret AtwoodHe stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.
Margaret AtwoodAll of this was understood, and if not condoned, at least pardoned.
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