All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
Margaret AtwoodI'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
Margaret AtwoodI have a fork and a spoon, but never a knifeโฆ as if Iโm lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. Thatโs why Iโm not allowed a knife.
Margaret AtwoodYou don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
Margaret Atwood