All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.
Margaret AtwoodTheir youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?
Margaret AtwoodYou couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.
Margaret AtwoodTags: words
There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.
Margaret AtwoodTags: humor wisdom compromise method
There is no fool like an educated fool...
Margaret AtwoodThe sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.
Margaret AtwoodTags: money pretty-prose
But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched
Margaret AtwoodTags: love
They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.
Margaret AtwoodIn his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself from a bridge, then surely the prostitute, who has shown the most tenacious instinct for self-preservation, should be considered stronger and saner than her frailer and no longer living sisters. One couldn't have it both ways, he'd pointed out: if women are seduced and abandoned they're supposed to go mad, but if they survive, and seduce in their turn, then they were mad to begin with.
Margaret AtwoodTags: prostitution perceptions
The CorpSeCorps always substituted rumour for action, if action would cost them anything. They believed in the bottom line.
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