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As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

Margaret Atwood
Past, Echoes, Darkness
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Margaret Atwood
Darkness, World

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

Margaret Atwood
Betrayal, Silence, Darkness

But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.

Margaret Atwood
Names, Darkness, Use
Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.261, Anchor

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