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“Because citizens were always a bit like inmates and inmates were always a bit like citizens, so Consilience and Positron have only made it official.” (The Heart Goes Last Quotes)
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“Chemistry can be like magic. It can be merciless.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“Congratulations on a good outcome! We’ve all been rooting for you.” Charmaine wonders who’s been doing the rooting, because she hasn’t noticed anyone. But like so many things around here, maybe the rooting has taken place behind the scenes.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“Considering that the whole point of Consilience is for things to run smoothly, with happy citizens, or are they inmates? Both, to be honest. Because citizens were always a bit like inmates and inmates were always a bit like citizens, so Consilience and Positron have only made it official.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“Don’t cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“Here comes his hand, planing slowly across the white tablecloth like a manta ray in one of those deep-sea documentaries. It’s descending onto her own hand, which she shouldn’t have left so carelessly lying around on the table.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“How dare she show herself to be everything he was so annoyed with her for not being?”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“If you do bad things for reasons you’ve been told are good, does it make you a bad person?”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“Maybe they’ll just take her someplace else, like an island, with the other people on it who are like her. People who don’t fit in, but not criminal elements. Surely that’s what they’ll do.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“Men don’t like to think about makeup, they like to think everything about you is genuine. Unless of course they want to think you’re a slut and everything about you is fake.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“Most people are good underneath if they have a chance to show their goodness.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“Oblivion is increasingly attractive to the young, and even to the middle-aged, since why retain your brain when no amount of thinking can even begin to solve the problem?” (The Heart Goes Last Quotes)
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“She’s been a distraction for him, but not a necessity of life. More like a super-strong mint: intense while it lasted but quickly finished.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“Some people like to throw objects, such as glasses of water or rocks, but nail painting is more positive. If more world leaders would take it up there would be less overall suffering, in her opinion.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“That was the original idea, but once you’ve got a controlled population with a wall around it and no oversight, you can do anything you want.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“The past is so much safer because whatever’s in it has already happened. It can’t be changed; so, in a way, there’s nothing to dread.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“There is only so much manpower and tax revenue that can be devoted to riot control, to social surveillance, to chasing fast youths down dark alleyways, to fire-hosing and pepper-spraying suspicious-looking gatherings.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“They wanted her to use her head and discard her heart; but it wasn’t so easy, because the heart goes last”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“What is, as Grandma Win used to say, and what can’t be cured must be endured, and laugh and the world laughs with you but cry and you cry alone.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“With no orders to follow, she occupies her mind by painting her nails, which is a very soothing thing to do when you’re anxious and keyed up. Some people like to throw objects, such as glasses of water or rocks, but nail painting is more positive. If more world leaders would take it up there would be less overall suffering, in her opinion.”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
“You want your decisions taken away from you so you won’t be responsible for your own actions?”
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
