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

“Screw poetry, it's you I want,”

“The Chorus Line:”

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”

“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I am - would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them.”

“Kill what you can't save”

“Brahma and Airavata”

“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.”

“When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.”

“Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well.”

“He’d wormed his way into Justin’s life like a grub—preying on his weaknesses and his sexual orientation.”

“You keep showing up here? Being who you are?' There was a pause. 'I'm going to fall in love with you.' -Rehvenge”