The Skeleton’s Holiday Quotes

“The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

“Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

“The hyena found it difficult to walk in my high-heeled shoes.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

“The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a transparent monument dreaming of an electric breast, and gazed without eyes, with a pleasant and invisible smile, into the inexhaustible supply of silence that surrounds our star.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday