I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?
Margaret AtwoodThey will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
Margaret AtwoodThe problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.
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 AtwoodTo live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.
Margaret Atwood