Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
("The Handmaid's Tale")
More Quotes from Margaret Atwood:
A great fear came over me, and my body went entirely cold, and I stood as if paralyzed with fear; for I knew that the horse was no earthly horse, but the pale horse that will be sent at the Day of Reckoning, and the rider of it is Death; and it was Death himself who stood behind me, with his arms wrapped around me as tight as iron bands, and his lipless mouth kissing my neck as if in love. But as well as the horror, I also felt a strange longing.Margaret Atwood
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.
Margaret Atwood
This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
Margaret Atwood
His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.
Margaret Atwood
She who pays the undertaker calls the tune.
Margaret Atwood
Paper isn't important. It's the words on them that are important.
Margaret Atwood
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