#margaret atwood

You’d be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person:

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Where there is an emptiness, the mind will obligingly fill it up. Fear is always at hand to supply any vacancies, as

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Think of me as a guide. Think of yourself as a wanderer in a dark wood. It’s about to get darker.

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Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. Having no friends, I must make do with enemies.

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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us

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The adult female body was one big booby trap as far as I could tell. If there was a hole, something was bound to be shoved

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A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

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Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

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You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

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I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

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Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

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You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

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I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

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You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

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All I can hear now is the sound of my own heart, opening and closing, opening and closing, opening.

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Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

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I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

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I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

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But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain

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I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

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I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

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Sometimes it’s hard to know whether the whispering is coming from others or from the inside of your own head.

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But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain

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Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

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