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

“The Chorus Line:”

“In “Victorian Literature”, I taught George Eliot’s great novel Middlemarch. The younger group hated it: the characters in it made the wrong decisions and married the wrong people, and they themselves were never going to make such mistakes. The older group loved it: the characters in it made the wrong decisions and married the wrong people - it was just like real life.”

“The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.”

“What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.”

“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”

“She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are:”

“I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.”

““Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende”

““You dance inside my chest,”

“Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.”

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”