Margaret Atwood Quotes About Skins

Quotes about: Skins

• Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.

  Margaret Atwood

  Rain, Skins, Mouths

• While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Butterfly, Wings

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.69, Anchor

• Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Home, Air

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

• What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Wall, Two, Hair

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 25, 2012

• There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

  Margaret Atwood

  Father, Cat, Skins

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

• His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.

  Margaret Atwood

  Moving, Fall, Hands

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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