Skins Quotes - Page 5

• i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Breathing, Veins, Maps

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I can’t see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, since your clothes aren’t real.” I stopped, horrified. “I mean, I don’t look—It’s hard to see you, and I like looking at your real face, but I don’t try to see anything, because—Oh gosh, this sounds terrible.” He had a funny look on his face, like he wasn’t sure what to think. “Huh. That’s never been an issue before. Maybe next time you could bring me some shorts.

  Kiersten White

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.

  David Nicholls

  Guarantees That, Interesting, Might

  David Nicholls (2008). “Starter for Ten: A Novel”, p.136, Villard

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• If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Running, Men, Devil

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• I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hate, Forever, Curls

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere.

  Karen Cushman

  Dog, Spring, Thinking

  Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Thinking, Handwriting

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.56, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.64, Scholastic Inc.

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• Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Leaving, Behind You

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.

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• Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

  Alice Hoffman

  Skin And Bones, Bones, Fit

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• I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were tireless in taking him down, accepting as truth every accusation people made against him, assuming the worst until they drove him away. When he died, suddenly he was beloved again - people realized that the charges against him might really have been bogus, and that the skin lightening was really caused by a disease, and that his weirdness was part of his artistry. But when he was alive and on top, they couldn't wait to bring him down.

  Jay-Z

  Kings, People, Waiting

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• As her skin sizzled under the delicious heat, she supposed she should’ve been giving serious thought to the lunacy of what she was doing playing with a vampire, who was, for all his charm, as lethal as a stiletto across the throat. But then again, most of her friends already thought she was half a nut short of a fruitcake. Why disappoint?

  Nalini Singh

  Nuts, Giving, Vampire

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection”, p.22, Penguin

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• Alek was right behind her now, his body pressing close as he adjusted her sword arm. She hadn't realized this fencing business would be so touchy. He grasped her waist, sending a crackle across her skin. If Alek moved his hands any higher, he might notice what was hidden beneath her careful tailoring. “Always keep sideways to your opponent,” he said, gently turning her. “That way, your chest presents the smallest possible target.” “Aye, the smallest possible target,” Deryn sighed. Her secret was safe, it seemed.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Hands, Secret, Would Be

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• I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.

  Holly Black

  Cutting, Long, Rose

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

  Gena Showalter

  Cells, Noses, Mouths

  Gena Showalter (2010). “Twice as Hot”, p.133, HQN Books

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• When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.

  Charlaine Harris

  Broken, Together, Envelopes

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.741, Penguin

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• He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this, whatever it is. But I don't want to ruin it, so I say nothing. He doesn't move; he just stays there with his mouth pressed to my skin, and I stay there with my hands on his waist, for a long time.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Eye, Hands

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• Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

  Alane Ferguson

  Tissues, Taught, Scar

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• It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hands, Tears, Garments

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• I stepped closer to him and lowered my voice. 'If you could change one thing, what would it be?' He pulled the sheep pendant from his pocket. A question filled his eyes. I held out my hand. Riley placed it in my palm and I curled my finger around the necklace, pressing the metal into my skin.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Eye, Sheep, Hands

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.499, Harlequin

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• Gently, I ran my hand across his chest, exploring it. My breath felt tight in my throat. He was so beautiful. His muscles were toned, defined, his skin warm and smooth. Stroking my palm up over the line of his collarbone, I felt the firmness of his shoulder, the strength of his bicep. I traced my fingers over the black AK, following the lines of the letters. Alex hardly moved as I touched him, his eyes never leaving me. Finally I sighed and dropped my hand. I tried to smile. "I've sort of been wanting to do that ever since that first night in the motel room," I admitted.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Beautiful, Eye, Night

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• I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.

  Lisa Unger

  Together, Body, Reason

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.535, Crown

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• ...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Thrill, Body, Entwined

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• You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Spring, Gun

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• There is no lock strong enough nor wall thick enough to keep Death out," he murmured, his lips close to my ear so that I could feel the puff of his breath against my skin. The ends of a couple of his braids had found their way under the collar of my flannel night-shirt and tickled the base of my neck. "Are you speaking literally or metaphorically?

  Jenna Black

  Strong, Wall, Couple

  Jenna Black (2016). “Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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