Margaret Atwood Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Cat, Heart

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Heart, Mind

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.329, Anchor

• If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

  Margaret Atwood

  Heart, Eating, Hungry

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.329, Anchor

• Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

  Margaret Atwood

  Broken Heart, Over You, Avoiding

  Margaret Atwood (1993). “Wilderness Tips”, Bantam

• Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Heart, Thinking

• You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Heart, Brain

• The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Heart, Blind

• They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Hypocrite, Heart

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.254, Anchor

• Love is the pursuit of shadows.

  Margaret Atwood

  Broken Heart, Love Is, Shadow

• Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow. I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.

  Margaret Atwood

  Home, Heart, Eggs

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.447, Anchor

• At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone.

  Margaret Atwood

  Heart, Safe Haven, Envy

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.131, Anchor

• I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?

  Margaret Atwood

  Heart, Want

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.

  Margaret Atwood

  Jesus, Heart, Holy

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “The Robber Bride”, p.447, Anchor

• Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Flower, Heart

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

  Margaret Atwood

  Heart, Familiar, Clutch

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.742, Anchor

• The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Light, Shining

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

• If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "Narrative Magazine’s Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She Talks About “A Handmaid’s Tale”, “The Year Of The Flood” And Having Fun". Interview with Jo Scott-Coe, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

• But most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though no twin as I once thought. It says, I want, I don't want, I want, and then a pause. It forces me to listen.

  Margaret Atwood

  Heart, Want, Twins

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems II: Poems Selected & New 1976-1986”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we so much want to believe that they're going off to the halls of judgment, that their heart will be weighed against the feather of truth, that it will be heavy with sin and it will be eaten by a crocodile. It's almost essential to our well-being to have a fallback position like that. It may appear as if you've gotten away with it, but you'll pay for it later.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Heart, Essentials

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