Margaret Atwood quotes
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. 
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. 
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. 
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. 
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. 
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. All Margaret Atwood quotes ⇑
A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?
How could I be sleeping with this particular man... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.
You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
"There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it."