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Margaret Atwood

The Door

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  • irene. 🌤️has quoted2 years ago
    Still, why do I feel so responsible

    for the wailing from shattered houses,

    for birth defects and unjust wars,

    and the soft, unbearable sadness

    filtering down from distant stars?
  • irene. 🌤️has quoted2 years ago
    Don’t be afraid.

    A boat will be provided.

    After the boat has foundered,

    after you’ve reached the shore

    despite the foundering boat,

    after you’ve met whoever’s waiting,

    who loves you (possibly),

    after you’ve entered

    the part that I can’t see,

    I’ll tell your story—

    your story that was once so graceful

    but now is dark.

    That’s what I do:

    I tell dark stories

    before and after they come true.
  • irene. 🌤️has quoted2 years ago
    The future will be both better than the past

    and worse
  • irene. 🌤️has quoted2 years ago
    Why these boxfuls of ruin?
  • irene. 🌤️has quoted2 years ago
    Nobody cares who wins
  • irene. 🌤️has quoted2 years ago
    Did we cause this wreckage by breathing?
  • irene. 🌤️has quoted2 years ago
    we were born with mortality’s
    hook in us, and year by year it drags us
    where we’re going: down
  • irene. 🌤️has quoted2 years ago
    And so we stand on balconies and rocky
    hilltops, and caterwaul our best,
    and the world flickers
    in and out of being,
    and we think it needs our permission. We
    shouldn’t flatter ourselves: really
    it’s the other way around.
  • irene. 🌤️has quoted2 years ago
    Anything can become a saint
    if you pray to it enough—
    spaceship, teacup, wolf—
    and what we want is intercession,
    that iridescent ribbon
    that once held song to object
  • irene. 🌤️has quoted2 years ago
    Whatever
    made us think we could change the world?
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