Margaret Atwood nejznámější citáty
v doslovu sbírky The Journals of Susanna Moodie z roku 1970
Originál: (en) If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Zdroj: [Wilson, Sharon Rose, Margaret Atwood's textual assassinations: recent poetry and fiction, Svazek 1, Ohio State University Press, 2003, 978-0-81420-929-5, 16, anglicky]
Margaret Atwood kniha Z hlubin
Surfacing
Margaret Atwood kniha Z hlubin
Surfacing
Margaret Atwood: Citáty anglicky
“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Lady Oracle
Zdroj: Lady Oracle
“You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake
Zdroj: Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood kniha Lady Oracle
Zdroj: Lady Oracle
“I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake
Zdroj: Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale
“Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Z hlubin
Zdroj: Surfacing
Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale
“How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale
“Where do the words go
when we have said them?”
Zdroj: Procedures For Underground
“There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Slepý vrah
Zdroj: The Blind Assassin
“Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale
“How were we to know we were happy?”
Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice
Varianta: We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice
Zdroj: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 192-193)
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale
Kontext: I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real.
Margaret Atwood kniha The Year of the Flood
Zdroj: The Year of the Flood
“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake
Zdroj: Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale
“Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.”
Margaret Atwood kniha The Robber Bride
Zdroj: The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake
Zdroj: Oryx and Crake
