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  1. 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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  2. Margaret Atwood _ The Blind Assassin

    The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. -the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unhappy lovers-I could now see-faintly ridiculous, like poor moping Miss Violence herself. Soft-edged, blurry, soggy, like a bun fallen into the water. Nothing you'd want to touch,
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Bluebeard's Egg

    He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    So few people understand about anything.
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ Bluebeard's Egg

    What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ Bluebeard's Egg

    ...he was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?
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  10. Margaret Atwood

    Now I only need to lookout at them through my sky-blue eyes.They see their own ill willstaring them in the foreheadand turn tail
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ The Robber Bride

    Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.
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  12. Margaret Atwood

    How shrunk, how dwindled, in our timesCreation's mighty seed
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