The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.”
“If you do bad things for reasons you’ve been told are good, does it make you a bad person?”
“Oblivion is increasingly attractive to the young, and even to the middle-aged, since why retain your brain when no amount of thinking can even begin to solve the problem?”
“How dare she show herself to be everything he was so annoyed with her for not being?”
“You want your decisions taken away from you so you won’t be responsible for your own actions?”
“Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.”
“That way nobody feels exploited.” “Wait a minute,” says Stan. “Nobody’s exploited?” “I said nobody feels exploited,” says Budge. “Different thing.”
“Looking back on his life, he sees himself spread out on the earth like a giant covered in tiny threads that have held him down. Tiny threads of petty cares and small concerns, and fears he took seriously at the time. Debts, timetables, the need for money, the longing for comfort; the earworm of sex, repeating itself over and over like a neural feedback loop. He’s been the puppet of his own constricted desires.”
“She gives him an LED smile: light, but no heat.”
“She’s been a distraction for him, but not a necessity of life. More like a super-strong mint: intense while it lasted but quickly finished.”
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