Don’t interfere with false gods, you’ll get the gold paint all over your hands.
Weitere Zitate von Margaret Atwood
Zum Autor"Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it."
"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."
"Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all."
"In my dreams of this city I am always lost."
"These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency."
"The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed."