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“You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”
― Margaret Atwood , The Blind Assassin

“Where were we? I've forgotten.
He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
Right. Yes. The usual choices.”
― margaret atwood , The Blind Assassin

“Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Now she imagines him dreaming. She imagines him dreaming of her, as she is dreaming of him. Through a sky the color of wet slate they fly towards each other on dark invisible wings.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“It's the end of the world every day, for someone.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin