Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.
Margaret AtwoodTags: dogs immortality
Stretch your hand towards those gentle eyes that regard you with such trust
Margaret AtwoodBut maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.
Margaret AtwoodThey are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier.
Margaret AtwoodThese things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
Margaret AtwoodThere's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
Margaret AtwoodIs anything wrong, dear? the old joke went.
No, why?
You moved.
Just don't move.
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
Margaret AtwoodOnly a girl like this
can know what's happened to you.
If she were here she would
reach out her arms towards
you now, and touch you
with her absent hands
and you would feel nothing, but you would be
touched all the same.
Tags: fairytale-politics
These albums were thick with babies, but my replicas thinned out as I grew older, as if the population of my duplicates had been hit with some plague.
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