Margaret Atwood Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

  Margaret Atwood

  Patience, Children, Wall

• 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

• The astrologers would tell that the U.S. is ruled by fire and Canada is ruled by water. Short version: You pep us up, we cool you down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Water, Pep

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

  Margaret Atwood

  Time, Children, Water

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.352, Random House

• Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ice Water, Snow, Looks

• Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick in the paper: you could put your eye to it and see through, to the other side, to the beginning of something else. Or, as Tony says to her students, Time is not a solid, like wood, but a fluid, like water or the wind. It doesn't come neatly cut into even-sized length, into decades and centuries. Nevertheless, for our purposes we have to pretend it does. The end of any history is a lie in which we all agree to conspire.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Eye, Writing

• You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

  Margaret Atwood

  Time, Water, Looks

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

• The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.

  Margaret Atwood

  Water, Body, Sand

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dust, Color, Water

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Cat's Eye”, p.23, Anchor

• Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

  Margaret Atwood

  Blood, Water, Nevertheless

• Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

  Margaret Atwood

  Dark, Blue, Water

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “The Penelopiad”, p.38, Faber & Faber

• A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hair, Wind, Water

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

• Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Feet, Ice

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.

  Margaret Atwood

  Moving, Fall, Hands

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

  Margaret Atwood

  Loneliness, Islands, Water

• Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Water Bottles, Comfort

• The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

  Margaret Atwood

  Water, Stories, Odyssey

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.21, Canongate Books

• Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed everything. So you can't really predict the future, but you can say, "Boy, are those glaciers ever melting." You can measure that, and you can say, "When they're all melted there won't be any Athabasca River," and you can say, "What will happen to the oil sands then?" because you need a lot of water to make that oil. "Where's that going to come from?" You can say things like that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Boys, Thinking, Oil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns, breakdown of social order, water shortages, and outbreaks of bloodshed and disease.

  Margaret Atwood

  Water, Tomorrow, Breakdown

  Source: www.marandapleasantmedia.com

• Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

  Margaret Atwood

  Patience, Children, Remember You

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.43, Canongate Books

• Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

  Margaret Atwood

  Patience, Hands, Water

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.43, Canongate Books

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