Contact
Privacy
Book: The Year of the Flood
Quotes of Book: The Year of the Flood
TOP TAGS :excellencecopingcalming-the-mindworld-war-oneshouldersoprah-winfreytimidrevision

  1. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    violated by bloodshed and gluttony and pride and disdain. Say their Names.
    book-quote

  2. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because"
    book-quote

  3. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    Everyone's too sad for everything.
    book-quote

  4. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    God cannot be held to the narrowness of literal and materialistic interpretations, nor measured by Human measurements, for His days are eons, and a thousand ages of our time are like an evening to Him.
    book-quote

  5. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    Like stage magic, knowledge before you knew it took place before your very eyes, but you were looking elsewhere.
    book-quote

  6. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    A wall that cannot be defended is no sooner built than ended.
    book-quote

  7. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    This thing I'm doing can hardly be called living. Instead I'm lying dormant, like a bacterium in a glacier. Getting time over with. That's all.
    book-quotetimeliving

  8. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    You create your own world by your inner attitude, the Gardeners used to say.
    book-quote

  9. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    One day, he said that what you had to do in any adversarial situation was to kill the king, as in chess. I said people didn't have kings any more. He said he meant the centre of power, but today it wouldn't be a single person, it would be the technological connections.
    book-quote

  10. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    You can't live with such fears and keep on whistling. The waiting builds up in you like a tide. You start wanting it to be done with. You find yourself saying to the sky, Just do it. Do your worst. Get it over with.
    book-quotefearstrength

  11. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    The answer can only be that God has given Adam free will, and therefore Adam may do things that God Himself cannot anticipate in advance.
    book-quote

  12. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    The Human Words of God speak of the Creation in terms that could be understood by the men of old. There is no talk of galaxies or genes, for such terms would have confused them greatly! But must we therefore take as scientific fact the story that the world was created in six days, thus making a nonsense of observable data?
    book-quote
Categories