How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés wisdom love despair loneliness sorrow ignorance insight carelessness



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Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -
The water below is as dark as the grave,
And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -
It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés dark hopeful chorus handmaids myths-series the-myths



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When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.

Margaret Atwood


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I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.

Margaret Atwood


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They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés imagination growing-up school pretend



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When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés words



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Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés reading books readers



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...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

Margaret Atwood


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They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés money nouveau-riche



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Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés relationships lovers



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