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Cat's Eye quotes

Margaret Atwood

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“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing what ever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is...” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can’t even see it,...” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“Potential has a shelf life.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession, with undertones of nausea.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“Vanity is becoming a nuisance; I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I’m not ready for that yet.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“What we share, Jon and I, may be a lot like a traffic accident, but we do share it. We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“This is the middle of my life. I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I’m supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience...” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings, then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we are the grown-ups: this is the crux of it.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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