Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95 per cent, which is enormous. But again, I'm actually giving you grounds for optimism: There were enough to continue. The five per cent who made it through are what you need to survive a bottleneck, which we have been through before.
Margaret AtwoodGravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.
Margaret AtwoodHis 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 AtwoodWriting... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.
Margaret Atwood