Procedures for Underground Quotes

“Where do the words go
when we have said them?”
― Margaret Atwood, Procedures for Underground

“with shrunken fingers
we ate our oranges and bread,
shivering in the parked car;

though we know we had never
been there before,
we knew we had been there before.”
― Margaret Atwood, Procedures for Underground

“They were once dust and ordinary hatreds. I breathed on them, named them: now they are predictions.”
― Margaret Atwood, Procedures for Underground