Léa

“Now young lady,’ he said to me, ‘I’m not going to chastize you personally because I can see you are a nice girl and only the innocent means to this abominable end. But you will be so kind as to give these tracts to your employers. Who can tell but that their hearts may yet be softened? The propagation of drink and of drunkenness to excess is an iniquity, a sin against the Lord.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman

“The rest of the park was plain grass, which had turned yellow; it crackled underfoot. This day was going to be like the one before, windless and oppressive. The sky was cloudless but not clear: the air hung heavily, like invisible steam, so that the colours and outlines of objects in the distance were blurred.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman

“took the pamphlets he handed me, but felt enough loyalty to Seymour Surveys to say, ‘Our company doesn’t have anything to do with selling the beer, you know.’ ‘It is the same thing,’ he said sternly, ‘it is all the same thing, “Those who are not with me are against me, saith the Lord.” Do not try to whiten the sepulchres of those traffickers in human misery and degradation.’ He was about to turn away, but said to me as an afterthought, ‘You might read those yourself, young lady. Of course you never pollute your lips with alcohol, but no soul is utterly pure and proof against temptation. Perhaps the seed will not fall by the wayside, nor yet on stony ground.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman

“That’s the nice thing about me. I’m very flexible, I’m the universal substitute.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman