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Under the Skin QUOTES

Under the Skin QUOTES

1 " The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

2 " Shared suffering, she’d found, was no guarantee of intimacy. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

3 " Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

4 " The word troubled her, though. ‘Indispensable.’ It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

5 " she and they were all the same under the skin, weren’t they? "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

6 " In the end, though, vodsels couldn't do any of the things that really defined a human being. They couldn't siuwil, the couldn't mesnishtil,they had no concept of slan. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

7 " You know,’ Amlis went on, ‘Some water fell out of the sky not so long ago.’ His voice was a little higher than usual, vulnerable with awe. ‘It just fell out of the sky. In little droplets, thousands of them close together. I looked up to see where they were coming from. They seemed to be materializing out of nowhere. I couldn’t believe it. Then I opened my mouth to the sky. Some droplets fell straight in. It was an indescribable feeling. As if nature was actually trying to nurture me. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

8 " Strange how a specimen like him, well cared for, healthy, free to roam the world, and blessed with a perfection of form which would surely have allowed him to breed with a greater selection of females than average, could still be so miserable. By contrast, other males, scarred by neglect, riddled with diseases, spurned by their kind, were occasionally known to radiate a contentment that seemed to arise from something more enigmatic than mere stupidity. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

9 " The variety of shapes, colours and textures under her feet was, she believed, literally infinite. It must be. Each shell, each pebble, each stone had been made what it was by aeons of submarine or subglacial massage. The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the unfairness of human life into perspective. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

10 " They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

11 " Needs could not bully her. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

12 " I sometimes think that the only things really worth talking about are the things people absolutely refuse to discuss. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

13 " Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

14 " MERCY. It was a word she’d rarely encountered "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

15 " Her invisible remains would combine, over time, with all the wonders under the sun. When it snowed she would be part of it, falling softly to earth, rising up again with the snow's evaporation, When it rained, she would be there in the spectral arch that spanned from firth to ground. She would help to wreathe the fields in mists, and yet would always be transparent to the stars. She would live forever. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

16 " it was already tomorrow. She should have known from the beginning that it would end like this. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

17 " ISSERLEY ALWAYS DROVE straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her. "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

18 " Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

19 " Unreality was swirling all around her like the delirious miasmas "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin

20 " The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the "

― Michel Faber , Under the Skin