How dare she be anything he was annoyed with her for not being?
Margaret AtwoodFuck, thinks Stan. She knows about the chickens.
Margaret AtwoodIt has thrown off its disguise as a meal and has revealed itself to me for what it is, a large dead bird. I'm eating a wing. It's the wing of a tame turkey, the stupidest bird in the world, so stupid it can't even fly any more. I am eating lost flight.
Margaret AtwoodWomen are hard to keep track of, most of them. They slip into other names, and sink without a trace.
Margaret AtwoodCraziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.
Margaret AtwoodSanity is a valuable possession: I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.
Margaret AtwoodPossible, impossible. What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
Margaret AtwoodTag: the-handmaid-s-tale
Perhaps her mind is slipping, perhaps she's going off the tracks, perhaps she is coming unhinged. Unhinged, like a broken door, like a rammed gate, like a rusting strongbox. When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside and other things get in that ought to be shut out." ~~Margaret Atwood
Margaret AtwoodWhy can't I believe? she asked the darkness.
Behind her eyelids she saw an animal. It was golden colour, with gentle green eyes and canine teeth, and curly wool instead of fur. It opened its mouth, but it did not speak. Instead, it yawned.
It gazed at her. She gazed at it. "You are the effect of a carefully calibrated blend of plant toxins," she told it.
Then she fell asleep.
i)
We are hard on each other
and call it honesty,
choosing our jagged truths
with care and aiming them across
the neutral table.
The things we say are
true; it is our crooked
aims, our choices
turn them criminal.
ii)
Of course your lies
are more amusing:
you make them new each time.
Your truths, painful and boring
repeat themselves over
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