Margaret Atwood Romance Quotations

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

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.

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

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.