Tunnen olevani kuin hattaranekku: sokeria ja ilmaa. Jos minua puristaa niin minusta tulee pieni, etovaa kosteutta tihkuva punertava mytty.

Margaret Atwood

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Sanity is a valuable possession.

Margaret Atwood

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Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. There's nothing like a shovelful of dirt to encourage literacy.

Margaret Atwood

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Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.

Margaret Atwood


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I want, I don’t want.
How can one live with such a heart?

Margaret Atwood

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Here is a handful
of shadow I have brought back to you:
this decay, this hope, this mouth-
ful of dirt, this poetry.

Margaret Atwood


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In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.

Margaret Atwood

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All observations of life are harsh, because life is.

Margaret Atwood

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It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it is enough to see by.

Margaret Atwood


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I´ll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that´s how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.

Margaret Atwood

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