“When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Sadness, self
“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Hunger, Vitality, Life, Living, Desire
“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Behavior, Feelings, Emotion, Psychology, Mental Health
“We understand more than we know.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Understanding, Knowledge, Life, Learning
“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Touch, Love, senses, Truth, The Human Condition
“There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Stories, Life, Narratives
“You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Self-Concept, Identity, Being Alone, Alone, Loneliness
“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Love, Exes, Ex-Lovers
“Forgiveness is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: forgiveness, Power
“'Should' is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Regret, Perception, Mistakes, Alternate Universes
“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Identity, Being Needed, Ego
“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Learning, Education, Children, Creativity, invention
“I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Change, Identity, Self-Concept
“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Paradise, Hell, Torture, Being Stuck, Love
“So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Life, Living, Detachment
“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: The World, beauty, Gratitude, Appreciation, Nature