A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.
Weitere Zitate von Margaret Atwood
Zum Autor"A word after a word after a word is power."
"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."
"In my dreams of this city I am always lost."
"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
"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."
"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..."