It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
Interpretation
The quote captures a moment of beauty and nostalgia in an evening scene, illustrating the unique aesthetics of twilight.
In this quote, Margaret Atwood evokes a vivid image of an evening characterized by muted, gray tones reminiscent of watercolor painting. The phrase 'like liquid dust' suggests a sense of softness and ephemeral beauty, inviting readers to appreciate the subtle charm found in nature's transitions. It encourages reflection on the moments that pass quickly, yet leave a lasting impression on our senses and memories.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a nature appreciation event to highlight the beauty of evening scenes.
If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.
I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.
What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.
We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.
I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.
Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.
For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show up in my studio in the clothes that they want to be wearing. And often times, those clothes would be the same trappings people would see on television and find menacing.
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