Cut and Thirst Quotes

“Karma’s a bitch,” says Leonie, “except sometimes it gets the wrong address.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“It’s an old debate. Should art be good art, or art that’s good for you?”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“No wonder people were afraid of old women, back in the witch-barbecue days,” says Myrna. “They’ve spent a lifetime festering.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“Their respect for murderers is increasing: not so easy, this murdering business.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“It eases one’s path through the tangled woods of life to be adorable, though there is of course a downside: men think you’re a pushover.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“Once the question gets raised, next thing you know they’re banning books in libraries.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“First you murder someone and then you need a drink.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“It’s an old debate. Should art be good art, or art that’s good for you? Once the question gets raised, next thing you know they’re banning books in libraries.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“the internet leaks like a sieve,”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“There is no past. Or at least, not until you deal with stuff.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“Chrissy is good with plants: she claims you have to talk to them, though she has never divulged what you’re supposed to say.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“My way of life is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf,”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“Should art be good art, or art that’s good for you?”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“the temptation is to gloss over or replay things the way you wish they had gone rather than how they actually had.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“It's an old debate. Should art be good art, or art that's good for you? Once the question gets raised, next thing you know they're banning books in libraries.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“not so easy, this murdering business.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“Chrissy would not say, “Bugger this,” under any circumstances: she considers it antigay. Myrna has explained that the term derives from an Old French word meaning “heretic,”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“Weren’t the beleaguered profs routinely mobbed on social media—as Chrissy had been just before she left for daring to teach ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, that disgusting, incestuous Jacobean bloodbath with such a demeaning word in the title? How could she have been so tone-deaf? So anti-woman? Not a good look! “But I chose it as an example of misogyny,” Chrissy had wailed at the time. “You aren’t supposed to like it!”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“Scientologists”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“A guy wrote it. But it’s got the Whore of Babylon, clothed in scarlet and riding on a beast with a lot of horns. That counts for something”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“Why aren’t there any horsewomen of the apocalypse?” Chrissy asks. She devoted her academic life to such matters. Women missing from various spheres of activity—why no women garbage collectors?”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“People can be so mean,” said Chrissy. “You’ve noticed,” said Leonie. She raised her glass. “Here’s to our narrow escape. Fuck academia.” “It was great while it lasted,”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“Thank god the three of them had hit retirement age just in time! Who’d want to teach at a university these days? Didn’t the students rat the professors out at the slightest verbal misstep? Weren’t the beleaguered profs routinely mobbed on social media—as Chrissy had been just before she left for daring to teach ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, that disgusting, incestuous Jacobean bloodbath with such a demeaning word in the title? How could she have been so tone-deaf? So anti-woman? Not a good look!
“But I chose it as an example of misogyny,” Chrissy had wailed at the time. “You aren’t supposed to like it!”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“Nostalgia is your enemy,”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst

“Leonie has been on the ebb for several years now. Myrna sometimes wonders, uncharitably, why Leonie doesn’t just get on with it: you can’t endlessly be dying, there’s a sell-by date; sooner or later you have to actually die. Not that Myrna wishes Leonie to die—a hundred times the opposite, and what would they all do without her?—but the constant allusions to her impending mortality are frazzling to Myrna’s nerves. After a while—in fact, quite soon—she runs out of commiseration and then changes the subject, and that seems callous.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cut and Thirst