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Quotes from The Year of the Flood — Margaret Atwood

born 1939 Canada

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“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”

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You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

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Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

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You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

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“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”

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“We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.”

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How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

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“we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.”

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“It's better to hope than mope!”

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time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar: it’s a sea on which you float.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Atwood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.