Margaret Atwood Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• War is what happens when language fails.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Empowering, Language

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Robber Bride: Includes the short story 'I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth'”, p.46, Hachette UK

• When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sleep, Locks, Way

• It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Sunset, Ice

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “Stone Mattress: Nine Tales”, p.16, Anchor

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