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  1. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    ..there goes this day, down to where all the other days have gone, each one carrying something away with it.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder.
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    her own marriage had been arranged, would things have turned out any worse than they did? Is it fair, to send inexperienced young girls out into the wild forest to fend for themselves? Girls with big bones and maybe not the smallest of feet. What would help would be a wise woman, some gnarly old crone who would step out from behind a tree, who would give advice, who would say No, not this one, who would say Beauty is only skin deep, in men as well as women, who would see down as far as the heart. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? An older woman knows. But how much older do you have to get before you acquire that kind of wisdom?
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    Actually, they took turns trying to avoid being the victims. That's the whole point about war!
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    A breath would blow you away, they beam down at her silently. You wish, thinks Tony, smiling up. Many have blown. She
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    Charis tried not to mind, since nothing that was or had been would perish, and the farm was still inside her, it was still hers because places belonged to the people who loved them.
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when they've got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemicals in them all the time.
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    So few people understand about anything.
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    She's the kind of woman who wants what she doesn't have and gets what she wants and then despises what she gets.
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  12. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    Roz added sheep to Heaven. They would be outside the window, naturally.
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