True Stories
Margaret Atwood
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Screw poetry, it's you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.”
“This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.”
“In this country you can say what you like because no one will listen to you anyway”
“Mouth to mouth I'm bringing you back to life. Why did you drown like that without telling? What numbed you? What rose over your head was gradual and only everybody's air, standard & killing. Your head floats on your hand, on water, you turn over, your heart returns unsteadily to its two strong notes. I'm bringing you back to life, it's mutual.”
“at this distance you’re a mirage, a glossy image fixed in the posture of the last time I saw you. Turn you over, there’s a place for the address. Wish you were here.”
“Time comes in waves here, a sickness, one day after the other rolling on; I move up, it’s called awake, then down into the uneasy nights but never forward.”
“She is dying because she said. She is dying for the sake of the word. It is her body, silent and fingerless, writing this poem.”
“Attack, voracious eating, and flight: it’s a sound routine for staying alive on edges.”
“a flayed body untangled string by string and hung to the wall, an agonized banner displayed for the same reason flags are.”
“Who invented the word love?”
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