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.
Weitere Zitate von Margaret Atwood
Zum Autor"A word after a word after a word is power."
"The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed."
"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."
"These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency."
"Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run..."
"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."