Margaret Atwood, The Year Of The Flood Quotes

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

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

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins.

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.

But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her.

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

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking.