MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3) QUOTES

2 " Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either, but it was a reassuring story: that the dead were not entirely dead but were alive in a different way; a paler way admittedly, and somewhat darker. But still able to send messages, if only such messages could be recognized and deciphered. People need such stories, Pilar said once, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void. "

― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

4 " But I have already told the beginning, so right now it's the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story about Zeb. He is in the middle of his own story.

I am not in this part of the story; it hasn't come to the part with me. But I'm waiting, far off in the future. I'm waiting for the story of Zeb to join up with mine. The story of Toby. The story I am in right now, with you. "

― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

6 " So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means. "

― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

8 " The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them. "

― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

10 " There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too. "

― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

12 " Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. And so was God, because as soon as there's a past tense, there has to be a past before the past, and you keep going back in time until you get to I don't know, and that's what God is. It's what you don't know - the dark, the hidden, the underside of the visible, and all because we have grammar ... "

― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

14 " She is about to add, "I have scars, inside me," but she stops herself. What is a scar, Oh Toby? That would be the next question. Then she'd have to explain what a scar is. A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. "

― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

16 " People need such stories, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void. "

― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

18 " I remember adapt,” says Toby. “It was another way of saying tough luck. To people you weren’t going to help out. "

― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

20 " The only sure camouflage was unpredictability. "

― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)