The Blind Assassin quotes
5 quotes from The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
About Margaret Atwood
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
The white gloves: a Pontius Pilate gesture. She was washing her hands of me.
But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.
Long ago I made a choice between classicism and romanticism. I prefer to be upright and contained–an urn in daylight
Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
The Friday Letter
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