Margaret Atwood, from The Selected Poems of Margaret Atwood; "She Considers Evading Him,"
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But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
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Wedlock: it had a dull metallic sound, like an iron door clicking shut.
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
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Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin
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You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave
Margaret Atwood
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I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood, from The Selected Poems of Margaret Atwood; "She Considers Evading Him,"
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Margaret Atwood, from “The Blind Assassin”
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that craving for darkness, / the lust to feel what it does to you
Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘Eating Snake’
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— Margaret Atwood, We Are Hard from Power Politics: Poems (via lunamonchtuna)
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Margaret Atwood, from The Testaments
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