The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
("The Blind Assassin")
More Quotes from Margaret Atwood:
If you worked out enough, maybe the man would too. Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two of you were a puzzle that could be solved; otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise. If you didn't work it out it was because one of you had the wrong attitude.Margaret Atwood
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret Atwood
There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.
Margaret Atwood
This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
Margaret Atwood
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Margaret Atwood
It was a question now, rather than a statement; a question with no answer.
Margaret Atwood
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