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Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

Margaret Atwood
Time, Children, Water
Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.352, Random House

The astrologers would tell that the U.S. is ruled by fire and Canada is ruled by water. Short version: You pep us up, we cool you down.

Margaret Atwood
Water, Pep
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Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

Margaret Atwood
Blood, Water, Nevertheless

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

Margaret Atwood
Loneliness, Islands, Water

If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns, breakdown of social order, water shortages, and outbreaks of bloodshed and disease.

Margaret Atwood
Water, Tomorrow, Breakdown
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Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

Margaret Atwood
Patience, Hands, Water
Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.43, Canongate Books

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.

Margaret Atwood
Hair, Wind, Water
Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

Margaret Atwood
Dust, Color, Water
Margaret Atwood (2011). “Cat's Eye”, p.23, Anchor

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Margaret Atwood
Water, Stories, Odyssey
Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.21, Canongate Books

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.

Margaret Atwood
Water, Body, Sand
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

Margaret Atwood
Dark, Blue, Water
Margaret Atwood (2014). “The Penelopiad”, p.38, Faber & Faber

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

Margaret Atwood
Time, Water, Looks
Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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