I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
Margaret AtwoodMary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.
Margaret AtwoodTime folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again.
Margaret AtwoodThe heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
Margaret AtwoodNature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
Margaret Atwood