« Stan wants to see them work the facial features, especially the smiles. He has a professional interest, from his job at Dimple. The Empathy Model he’d worked on could smile, but it was the same smile every time. Though what else did you need for checking out groceries? Put two eyes on anything and basically it looks like a face. ».
Weitere Zitate von Margaret Atwood
Zum Autor"A word after a word after a word is power."
"No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well."
"I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead."
"A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon."
"In my dreams of this city I am always lost."
"Don’t interfere with false gods, you’ll get the gold paint all over your hands."