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

“If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.”

“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?”

“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.”

“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.”

“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.”

““Try it again," I said. "Kiss me."”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”

““having nothing to struggle”

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ”