Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
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The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself.
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The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing, sooner or later.
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Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.
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Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill?
Margaret AtwoodThere's time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for - the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing. Time as white sound.
Margaret AtwoodMy life had a tendency to spread, get flabby, to scroll and festoon like the frame of a baroque mirror, which came from following the line of least resistance. I wanted my death, by contrast, to be neat and simple, understated, even a little severe, like a Quaker church or the basic black dress with a single strand of pearls...
Margaret AtwoodI almost gasp: he's said a forbidden word. Sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore, not officially. There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren, that's the law.
Margaret AtwoodΤο νερό δεν αντιστέκεται. Το νερό ρέει. Όταν βυθίζεις το χέρι σου μέσα του, το μόνο που νιώθεις είν' ένα χάδι. Το νερό δεν είναι στέρεος τοίχος και δεν σε σταματάει. Όμως πηγαίνει όπου θέλει να πάει και τίποτα στο τέλος δεν μπορεί να του αντισταθεί. Το νερό είναι υπομονετικό. Το νερό που στάζει μπορεί να σκάψει ένα βράχο. Να το θυμάσαι αυτό, κόρη μου. Να θυμάσαι πως είσαι η μισή φτιαγμένη από νερό. Αν δεν μπορείς να υπερνικήσεις ένα εμπόδιο, παράκαμψέ το. Κάνε αυτό που κάνει το νερό.
Margaret AtwoodBut if Crake wanted her to stay longer on any given night, do it again maybe, she'd make some excuse—jet lag, a headache, something plausible. Her inventions were seamless, she was the best poker-faced liar in the world, so there would be a kiss goodbye for stupid Crake, a smile, a wave, a closed door, and the next minute there she would be, with Jimmy.
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