The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.
Weitere Zitate von Margaret Atwood
Zum Autor"A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon."
"Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means."
"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
"Don’t interfere with false gods, you’ll get the gold paint all over your hands."
"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."
"The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed."