The Robber Bride Quotes

“Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.”
― 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?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“Although he doesn't know it yet, she isn't his real life. But he is hers.

This is painful.”
― 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.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“So few people understand about anything.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

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

“She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels like a stray child, ragged and cold, with her nose pressed to a lighted window. A toy-store window, a bakery window, with fancy cakes and decorated cookies. Poverty prevents her entrance. These things are for other people; nothing for her.”
― 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.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“Roz is crying again. What she's mourning is her own good will. She tried so hard, she tried so hard to be kind and nurturing, to do the best thing. But Tony and the twins were right: no matter what you do, somebody always gets boiled.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“I do have a life,' says Charis, blinking wet eyes.

'You have a rich inner life,' says Tony firmly. 'More than most.”
― 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?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“Mitch looks in her direction. He can't meet her eyes. It's as if she's semi-invisible, a kind of hovering blur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight their stories will be about Zenia.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride