Margaret Atwood Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Romantic, Loving Someone

  Margaret Atwood (1973). “Power politics”, Harper & Row, 1973

• I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Sleep, Air

  "Variation on theWord Sleep" l. 27 (1981)

• The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Valentines Day, Names

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

• Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Sex, Lack Of Love

  The Handmaid's Tale ch. 18 (1986)

• Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Distance, Mean

• Love's never a fair trade.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Trade, Fair Trade

• And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Pain, Past

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Running, Tired

• Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Giving, Age

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.424, Anchor

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