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“People rarely know what they have until they lose it. They spend their lives searching for a better one”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“We’ll choose knowledge no matter what, we’ll maim ourselves in the process, we’ll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive: love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We’ll spy relentlessly on the dead: we’ll open their letters, we’ll read their journals, we’ll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us – who’ve left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we’d supposed.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we use the passwords of grammar – I say, you say, he and she say, it, on the other hand, does not say – paying for the privilege of sanity with common coin, with meanings we’ve agreed on.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“It’s the not giving up that separates the winners from the losers.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly