Humor Quote by Margaret Atwood — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.”

“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.”

“They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.”

“A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?”

“Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”

“It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.”

“If you are good life is good.”

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

“Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her.”

“"Don't be scared of Bambi" the demon said. "She's only curious and maybe a little bit hungry.”

“Did someone just call me the”

“Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. "Watson" he says, "look up in the sky and tell me what you see.”