Potential has a shelf life. Author: Margaret Atwood Copy Quote More from Margaret Atwood “Today I speak to my bones as I would speak to a dog. I want to go up the stairs…” “Why can't I believe? she asked the darkness. Behind her eyelids she saw an anim…” “We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; fo…” “Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in…”