Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.
Margaret AtwoodI became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
Margaret AtwoodWhen any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaningโhuman meaning, that isโis defined by them. You have to admit that.
Margaret AtwoodLove blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.
Margaret Atwood