Annie Dillard Quotes About Skins

Quotes about: Skins

• I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

  Annie Dillard

  Sea, Skins, Dolphins

  Annie Dillard (1989). “An American childhood”

• Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.

  Annie Dillard

  Morning, Eden, Dust

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.28, Canongate Books

• The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I myself was one such item...the things in the world did not necessarily cause my overwhelming feelings; the feelings were inside me, beneath my skin, behind my ribs, withing my skull. They were even, to some extent, under my control.

  Annie Dillard

  Skulls, People, Feelings

• What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

  Annie Dillard

  House, Skins, World

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.45, Canongate Books

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