Shannon HaleSometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
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Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. This is a very famous phrase by Margaret Atwood. It is an interesting quote because it offers the reader two different perspectives on life and also two different ways of thinking.
It can be interpreted as this: “Sometimes my imagination gets the best of me and threatens to take me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone than to become so caught up in fantasy that I risk falling apart.” Or, it can also be interpreted as: “Sometimes my imagination gets carried away and threatens to take me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone than to let myself get so caught up in fantasy that I risk falling apart.”
Source: Book Of A Thousand Days
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