The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.
("The Handmaid's Tale")
More Quotes from Margaret Atwood:
I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal somethingMargaret Atwood
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldnÆt say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life.
Margaret Atwood
My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.
Margaret Atwood
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
Margaret Atwood
All it takes,ö said Crake, ôis the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and itÆs game over forever.
Margaret Atwood
Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?
Margaret Atwood
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: symmetricalNudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
John Hurt
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy Garland
LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.
Lawrence Taylor