Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
("The Blind Assassin")
More Quotes from Margaret Atwood:
I am not your justification for existence.Margaret Atwood
I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.
Margaret Atwood
I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way crimes are imputed to those who've simply been present at them.
Margaret Atwood
The basic Female body comes with the following accessories garter belt, panti-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head.
Margaret Atwood
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Margaret Atwood
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
Margaret Atwood
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Mind QuotesBased on Keywords: rend
Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
Rachael Leigh Cook
It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.
Taryn Manning
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.
Stephen F. Lynch