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 can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.
I love entertaining people; I strive to make them feel good, and they make me feel wonderful. To explain it simply, I like what I do, and my ambition is to get better as I get older. That's really what I'm all about.
I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it.
I still consider myself to be introverted, but everyone has a side of themselves that is amplified. Performers have to learn to tap into that, even if it's not natural.
A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.
There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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