Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs. Author: Margaret Atwood Copy Quote More from Margaret Atwood “The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a pri…” “I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, …” “A great fear came over me, and my body went entirely cold, and I stood as if pa…” “War is what happens when language fails.”