Margaret Atwood Quotes About Cats

Quotes about: Cats

• Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Cat, Heart

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

  Margaret Atwood

  Father, Cat, Skins

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

• The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched; if i am - he'll think of something

  Margaret Atwood

  Cat, Thinking, Trying

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Nobody quite knows the truth about cats purring, but it does seem to be also a self-healing thing for them, which is why, when you take your cat to the vet and it's frightened, it will purr.

  Margaret Atwood

  Healing, Cat, Self

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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