Margaret Atwood Absence Quotations

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be...

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.