You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep longing for connection while feeling fragile and vulnerable.
In this quote, Margaret Atwood uses the imagery of a glass making sound to convey the complexity of emotions surrounding love and the desire for companionship. The longing to be with someone is juxtaposed with a sense of fragility, as symbolized by the word 'shatter,' suggesting that the speaker feels both a yearning for connection and an awareness of their own emotional vulnerability.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for a Valentine's Day card to express deep feelings of love and connection.
If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.
I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.
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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.
There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.
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