quotations

Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin

"Don't Eat Anything You Aren't Prepared to Kill."
"Don't Kill Anything You Aren't Prepared to Eat."
"Don't Kill."
"Don't Eat."

"Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains -- Flaubert"
(We must not touch our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands)

"Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme -- Victor Hugo"
(God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman)

"Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn't even know he's been hurt until much later."

"'I'm not senile,' I snapped. 'If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.'"