The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long as I don't move. As long as I lie still. The difference between lie and lay. Lay is always passive.
Margaret AtwoodTags: feminism
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
Margaret Atwood...there was little that was truly original or indigenous to Gilead. Its genius was synthesis.
Margaret AtwoodTags: history-of-thought
What do you want me to do?” he whispers into the empty air.
It’s hard to know.
Oh Jimmy, you were so funny.
Don’t let me down.
From habit he lifts his watch; it shows him its blank face.
Zero hour, Snowman thinks. Time to go.
But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.
Margaret AtwoodJust what the doctor ordered, he says. A bottle of lemonade, a hard-boiled egg, and Thou.
Margaret AtwoodI'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
Margaret AtwoodI used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.
Margaret AtwoodHuman understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
Margaret AtwoodTags: god-religion
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.
Margaret AtwoodTags: dystopia government enemy constitution
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