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"I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop."
"I was tired of her getting away with being so young."
"I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea."
"Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river."
"There's no way to tell what will make someone break down in tears. There are some who will cry at the merest melancholy word, and there are some who need the longest, cruelest speech to even dampen one eyelash. There are those who will cry at any sad song but no sad book, and there are those who are immune to the most saddening newspaper articles but will weep for days over a terrible meal. People cry at silence or at violence, in a graveyard or a schoolyard."
"The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone."
"She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."
Explore more quotes by Margaret Atwood
"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."
"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
"I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more."
"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."
"I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over."
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