Skins Quotes - Page 36

• If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

  James Lee Burke

  Tragedy, Who We Are, Forget

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Tamaki: A girl should only show skin once she's married, not before!!!

  Bisco Hatori

  Girl, Married, Should

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• Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion.

  Stacy London

  Fashion, Able, Draws

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• There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.

  Ally Carter

  Wall, Silence, Risk

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• He's helped me a lot over the years." "I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours." "I have skin allergies. I'm itchy.

  Darynda Jones

  Years, Allergies, Scratches

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.117, Macmillan

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• You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.

  Peter Zumthor

  Glasses, House, Body

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• Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Two, Parks, Hours

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.225, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?

  Lauren DeStefano

  Weight, Want, Next

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 15, 2013

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• His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.

  Richelle Mead

  Men, Slides, Necks

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1332, Penguin

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• Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

  Anne Sexton

  Dark, Giving, Cobwebs

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day - the snow melted to grass, the trees were reinhabitated with bird, leaf, and blossoms like a continent of butterflies breathing on the wind. And peering through, color sky from iron to blue. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Morning, Children

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto

  Stan Lee

  Hate, Color, Reason

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• In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Jobs, Blue, Feet

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• Now I'm a warrior Now i've got thicker skin I'm a warrior I'm stronger than i've ever been And my amor Is made of steel you can't get in i'm a warrior And you can never hurt me again

  Demi Lovato

  Hurt, Warrior, Stronger

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• Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of Ronan's back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely, and the tattoo got smaller and smaller. It was a Celtic knot the size of a wafer, and then Adam, who had become Kavinsky, said "Scio quid estis vos." He put the tattoo in his mouth and swallowed it. Ronan woke with a start, ashamed and euphoric. The euphoria wore off long before the shame did. He was never sleeping again.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Tattoo, Dream, Sleep

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• Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  People, Looks, Body

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• She’s not… She’s not datin’ the skeleton, is she? How would that be even possible, let alone… nice? He’s got no skin, or lips, or… or nothin’.

  Derek Landy

  Nice, Skeletons, Lips

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• You are such a chick." I widened my eyes in mock surprise. "No way. Are you sure?" Sighing again, he rubbed at the tattoos on his wrist. "Mackenzie was right. You aren't slayer material." Before he had time to register my intentions, I threw a punch. My sore, swollen knuckles slammed into his cheekbone, thrusting his head to the side. Pain shot up my arm, but I bit my tongue to stop a moan. "You were saying?" He popped his jaw, rubbed at the reddening skin-and slowly grinned. "Okay, so now I understand why Cole likes you. You're worse than Kat.

  Gena Showalter

  Tattoo, Pain, Eye

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.169, Harlequin

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• Not everything about me is cute." "That's true, some things are cute. The rest are sexy. Astonishing, agonizingly sexy. It's a wonder I can get anything done at all, when all I ever think about is the way your lips taste or how your fingertips feel on my skin or how your legs are..." "Adrian, shut up.

  Richelle Mead

  Cute, Sexy, Thinking

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• Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.

  Veronica Roth

  Sibling, Blue, Purple

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• I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel.

  John Green

  Names, Two, Voice

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

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• But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could’ve immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe she’d ever had any doubts about her body. The firelight shone on her skin, golden and perfect, making her look like some radiant goddess of legend. I wanted to kneel before her and offer eternal obedience.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Artist, Skills

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• She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Thinking, Self, Firsts

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• Beauty is only skin deep.

  Thomas Overbury

  Inspirational, Beauty, Imperfect

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• I'm an actress, I live in L.A., I work in Hollywood. But I've learned that if you're too skinny, they'll say something about it. If you're not skinny enough, they'll say something about it. I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Beauty, Feel Good, Trying

  "Cover Model: Jennifer Love Hewitt!". Interview with Claire Trageser, womensrunning.competitor.com. September 13, 2013.

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