Margaret Atwood Quotes About Romance

Quotes about: Romance

• Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Distance, Mean

• Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

  Margaret Atwood

  Music, Squares, Romance

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

• We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Romance, Running Away

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

• Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fate, Romance, Luck

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Book, Romance

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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