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There is never only one, of anyone

There is never only one, of anyone
– Margaret Atwood

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  6. Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one. – Margaret Atwood
  7. A writer’s age at the time of a work’s composition is never irrelevant. – Margaret Atwood
  8. Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond. – Margaret Atwood
  9. In the daylight we knowwhat’s gone is gone,but at night it’s different.Nothing gets finished,not dying, not mourning; – Margaret Atwood
  10. The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed. – Margaret Atwood
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  12. Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock. – Margaret Atwood
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  19. … Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. – Margaret Atwood
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  24. I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting. – Margaret Atwood
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  28. He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around. – Margaret Atwood
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  31. More and more I feel like a letter-”deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. – Margaret Atwood
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