Skins Quotes - Page 21

• Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.

  Jenny Eclair

  Skin Tone, Fake, Jellyfish

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• The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

  George Plimpton

  Basketball, Sports, Player

  George Plimpton (1994). “The Best of Plimpton”, p.48, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Caffeine dehydrates the body and speeds up the aging of the skin and kidneys.

  Ann Louise Gittleman

  Body, Kidneys, Aging

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• Under your skin the moon is alive.

  Pablo Neruda

  Moon, Alive, Suffocating

  Pablo Neruda, “Ode To A Naked Beauty”

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• As long as I don't end up hosting a skin care commercial with Cher, I'm happy.

  Jon Stewart

  Happiness, Long, Care

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• What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?

  Khalil Gibran

  Judgement, Naked, Shameless

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• My captivity with Dimitri. The way his mouth—so, so warm, despite his cold skin—had kissed mine. The feel of his fangs pressing into my neck and the sweet bliss that followed... He looked exactly the same too, with that chalky white pallor and red-ringed eyes that so conflicted with the soft, chin-length brown hair and otherwise gorgeous lines of his face. He even had a leather duster on.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Eye, Hair

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.89, Penguin

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• You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.

  Michael Scott

  Philosophy, Thinking, Smell

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.98, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.

  Colum McCann

  Past, Thinking, Different

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• Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cat, Eye, Kissing

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• Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

  Siobhan Dowd

  Water, Ponds, Tip Of The Iceberg

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• She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.

  Alice Hoffman

  Air, Dragons, Blood

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.201, Penguin Group

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• It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all.

  Libba Bray

  Struggle, Trying, Tugging

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.

  Tana French

  Life, Rip, Fall

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• This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.

  Eileen Wilks

  Night, Would Be, Lips

  Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.89, Penguin

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• Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.

  Alyson Noel

  Skulls, Silver, Palms

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll design myself special glasses. They'll block out whether people are fat or thin or beautiful or weird-looking, whether they have pimples or birthmarks or different coloured skin. They'll do everything suffering's done for us, but without the pain. I'm going to wear those glasses for the rest of my life.

  John Marsden

  Beautiful, Pain, Block

  John Marsden (2013). “The Night is for Hunting”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• Latin beauty means being proud of yourself and your culture; being sophisticated and beautiful; and embracing your complexion - whether you have light or dark skin - because it's gorgeous. We're such a beautiful rainbow of women.

  Chrissie Fit

  Beautiful, Latin, Mean

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• Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen--a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dog, Father, Taken

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.8, Vintage

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• The sun was hot on my skin, too bright as it bounced off the white concrete and blinded me. I felt dangerously exposed. More fiercely than I would have dreamed I was capable of, I wished for the green, protective forest of Forks . . . of home.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Home, White, Hot

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• In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fall, Color, Years

  Mohsin Hamid (2008). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me. I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then the palms of my hands, and then it was pressed against the skin of my cheek. I hoped that I was fainting, but, to my disappointment, I didn't lose consciousness. The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Disappointment, Hands

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• It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Years, Witch

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• Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Lying, Light, Two

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.204, St. Martin's Press

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• I doubt you’ve ever been forced to nonstop bang a woman hyped up on the undead voodoo version of Spanish fly, have you?” His chuckle was soft. “Can’t say that I have, Kitten.” “Yeah, well, consider me an original.” This time, when his lips brushed across my skin, it lasted more than a moment. “I always have.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Doubt, Bangs, Lips

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