It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you …

Margaret Atwood
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It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2014). Stone Mattress: Nine Tales, p.16, Anchor
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1988). Cat's eye, Doubleday, 1989
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