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Broken relationships1 quote
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood · 1972Divorce1 quote
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood · 1972Emotional scars1 quote
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 marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Existential terror1 quote
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Expression of love1 quote
I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary. — Margaret Atwood · 1980Healing1 quote
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 marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Inner strength1 quote
Don't let the bastards grind you down. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Lack of love1 quote
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Locus of control1 quote
This above all, to refuse to be a victim. — Margaret Atwood · 1972Love1 quote
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Marriage1 quote
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood · 1972Meaning of life1 quote
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Meaninglessness1 quote
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Need for love1 quote
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Perspective1 quote
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Relationships1 quote
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood · 1972Resilience1 quote
Don't let the bastards grind you down. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Rose-colored glasses1 quote
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Suffering1 quote
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 marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. — Margaret Atwood · 1985The past1 quote
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. — Margaret Atwood · 1985