Nate > Nate's Quotes

“But by that time, Janine was like a puppy that's been kicked too often, by too many people, at random: she'd roll over for anyone, she'll tell anything, just for a moment of approbation.”
― Margaret Atwood

“How easy is it to invent a humanity, for anyone at all”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Whatever is silenced will clamour to be heard, though silently.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloudcover... Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled over the eyes... I wish I could see in the dark, better than I do.”
― Margaret Atwood

“We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Weep. Weeping is what it is, not crying. I sit in this chair and ooze like a sponge”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Guilt is a useless, self-indulgent emotion...”
― Tilda Shalof, The Handover: A Nurse's Last Shift