“I’d polished them with my love and expected them to shine, brightly enough to return my own reflection, enhanced and sparkling.”—Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
“Driving in Italy made me nervous. People steered cars as if they were horses. They didn’t think in terms of roads but in terms of where they wanted to go: a road was where someone else wanted you to go, a road was an insult.”—Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.”—J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
