Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.
Margaret AtwoodTruly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
Margaret AtwoodYou can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you canโt get me out of the story. Iโm the plot, babe, and donโt ever forget it.
Margaret AtwoodEvery night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasnโt happened this morning, either.
Margaret AtwoodA wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if I've been caught stealing, or telling a lie; or as if I've heard other people talking about me, saying bad things about me, behind my back. There's the same flush of shame, of guilt and terror, and of cold disgust with myself. But I don't know where these feelings have come from, what I've done.
Margaret Atwood