# Quote — Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

> “we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.”

- Author: [Margaret Atwood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood.md)
- Book: [The Year of the Flood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/the-year-of-the-flood.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/the-year-of-the-flood/we-must-be-a-beacon

## More from this book

> time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar: it’s a sea on which you float.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/the-year-of-the-flood/time-is-not.md)

> Glenn used to say the reason you can’t really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, “I’ll be dead,” you’ve said the word I, and so you’re still alive inside the sentence. And that’s how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul — it was a consequence of grammar.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/the-year-of-the-flood/glenn-used-to-say.md)

> “It's better to hope than mope!”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/the-year-of-the-flood/its-better-to-hope.md)