Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
Margaret AtwoodAnd she finds it difficult to believeโthat a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.
Margaret AtwoodThe fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.
Margaret Atwood