“I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.”

—  Margaret Atwood , book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red." by Margaret Atwood?
Margaret Atwood photo
Margaret Atwood 348
Canadian writer 1939

Related quotes

Jodi Picoult photo

“All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Sylvia Plath photo

“I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

T.I. photo

“Candy on the 6-4, leather guts and fishbowl
Fifty on the pinky ring just to make my fist glow”

T.I. (1980) American rapper, record producer, actor, and businessman from Georgia

"What You Know" (2006)
2000s, King

Richelle Mead photo

“Seth was a wonderful kisser. He gave the kind of kisses that melted into your mouth and filled you with sweetness. They were like cotton candy.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

Robert Burns photo

“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us
An' ev'n Devotion”

Robert Burns To a Louse

To a Louse, st. 8 (1786) http://www.poetry-online.org/burns_to_a_louse.htm

Tom Robbins photo

“red hair is caused by sugar and lust.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

James Brown photo

“When I hold you in my arms,
I know that I can't do no wrong.
And when I hold you in my arms,
My love can't do me no harm.And I feel nice, like sugar and spice
I feel nice, like sugar and spice.
So nice, so nice, well I got you.”

James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist

I Got You (I Feel Good), from I Got You (1966)
Song lyrics

Charles Lamb photo

“The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling—a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.”

Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist

My First Play; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Sylvia Plath photo

“Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
and I eat men like air.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

"Lady Lazarus"
Ariel (1965)
Variant: p>Herr God, Herr Lucifer,
Beware.
Beware.Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.</p
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

Related topics