That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time. There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this.
Margaret AtwoodI’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.
Margaret AtwoodEvery child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to believe in, the love that had followed her through the jungle in the form of a bird so she would not be too frightened or lonely.
Margaret AtwoodTake me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.
Margaret AtwoodHe was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
Margaret AtwoodWe'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.
Margaret AtwoodTag: knowledge curiosity margaret-atwood the-blind-assassin snooping
It is always a mistake to curse back openly at those who are stronger than you unless there is a fence between.
Margaret AtwoodMadness is only an amplification of what you already are.
Margaret AtwoodI'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
Margaret AtwoodTag: truth love serene pragmatic beautiful-disaster
You can't help what you feel, Moira said once, but you can help how you behave.
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