Маргарет Этвуд знаменитые цитаты
„Людям почему—то нравится сваливать мусор в такие места, где еще сохранилась природа…“
мусор
Источник: проза
Маргарет Этвуд цитаты
„Ветер сметает с мозгов паутину, и дышишь полной грудью“
паутина
Источник: Каменная подстилка (сборник)
Маргарет Этвуд: Цитаты на английском языке
“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
Margaret Atwood книга The Year of the Flood
Источник: The Year of the Flood
“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
Margaret Atwood книга The Blind Assassin
Источник: The Blind Assassin
“I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”
Margaret Atwood книга The Blind Assassin
Источник: The Blind Assassin
“Faith is only a word, embroidered.”
Margaret Atwood книга The Handmaid's Tale
Источник: The Handmaid's Tale
“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.”
Margaret Atwood книга The Blind Assassin
Источник: The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood книга Орикс и Коростель
Источник: Oryx and Crake
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”
Margaret Atwood книга The Handmaid's Tale
Historical Notes (p. 311)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Источник: The Handmaid's Tale
Контексте: As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.
“You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.”
Margaret Atwood книга The Year of the Flood
Источник: The Year of the Flood
“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”
Margaret Atwood книга Орикс и Коростель
Источник: Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood книга Орикс и Коростель
Источник: Oryx and Crake
“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”
Margaret Atwood книга The Penelopiad
Источник: The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood книга The Blind Assassin
Источник: The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood книга Орикс и Коростель
Источник: Oryx and Crake
“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Margaret Atwood книга Cat's Eye
Вариант: Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Источник: Cat's Eye (1988)
Margaret Atwood книга The Blind Assassin
Источник: The Blind Assassin
“A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.”
Источник: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 20 (p. 121)
“Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”
Margaret Atwood книга The Handmaid's Tale
Источник: The Handmaid's Tale