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“They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.”
― John O'Hara

“Verbal abuse by its very nature undermines and discounts its victim’s perceptions.”
― Patricia Evans, The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond

“Don't cry any more, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping lily pads.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last

“And what did I amount to, once the official version gained ground? An edifying legend. A stick used to beat other women with.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“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, The Blind Assassin

“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”
― Margaret Atwood , The Blind Assassin

“She stubs out her cigarette in the brown glass ashtray, then settles herself against him, ear to his chest. She likes to hear his voice this way, as if it begins not in his throat but in his body, like a hum or a growl, or like a voice speaking from deep underground. Like the blood moving through her own heart: a word, a word, a word.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Excuse this digression. At my age you indulge in these apocalyptic visions. You say, The end of the world is at hand. You lie to yourself - I'm glad I won't be around to see it - when in fact you'd like nothing better, as long as you can watch it through the little secret window, as long as you won't be involved.
But why bother about the end of the world? It's the end of the world every day, for someone. Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin