Plagorism in Blogging

I recently quoted a line from a book I was reading to an aquaintance. I was surprised to see the following quote published on this person's blog as if they were his words. I hope that, when we are blogging, we give proper credit to the true authors of such material. The following exerpt came from The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

The tulips along the border are more full of color than ever, opening, no longer wine cups, but chalices, thrusting themselves up, to what end? They are after all, empty. When they are old, they turn themselves inside out, and then explode slowly, the petals thrown out like shards…

I know that blogging can be sensitive, but please do not allow people to think that you are the author of something that you are not. Take care, that if people are starting to comment that they think you have written something, that you fess up. This beautiful passage has a place in blog world, but with the proper author known.