Kate

“But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more.”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam

“She is about to add, "I have scars, inside me," but she stops herself. What is a scar, Oh Toby? That would be the next question. Then she'd have to explain what a scar is. A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out.”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam

“What could he have done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the small picture, so much.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. And so was God, because as soon as there's a past tense, there has to be a past before the past, and you keep going back in time until you get to I don't know, and that's what God is. It's what you don't know - the dark, the hidden, the underside of the visible, and all because we have grammar ...”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam