“I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.”-Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we’re still alive. We wish to assert out existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It’s all the same impulse. What do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get?
At the very least we want a witness. We can’t stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.” -Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”-Margaret Atwood
“In my dreams of this city I am always lost.”-Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye (17)
“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.”— Margaret Atwood
GABRIELA YARELIZ 