Skins Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hurt, Escaping, Wit

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.214, Scholastic Inc.

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• If the lot of you survives, Curran will fray the skin off your backs,' Doolittle said. 'That's what I always love about you, Doctor.' Raphael grinned. 'You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine.

  Ilona Andrews

  Flower, Sunshine, Doctors

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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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• Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Lonely, Home, Break Out

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.59, Grove Press

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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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• I've missed you, Sebastian." "Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the light eyes glittering with heat as her skin was revealed. "What part did you miss the most?" "Your mind," she said, and smiled at his expression. "I was hoping for a far more depraved answer than that." "Your mind is depraved," she told him solemnly. He gave a husky laugh. "True.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Light, Expression

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “A Wallflower Christmas: A Novel”, p.157, Macmillan

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• Her skin tasted expensive.

  Jenny Downham

  Expensive

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• Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart. She has many different zombies who are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombie who was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick farther in.

  Tim Burton

  Girl, Heart, Winning

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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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• The bathroom door burst open, and Molly came trotting out. The left half of her body had been shaved almost down to the skin. The right half was as shaggy as before. John emerged after her, brushing a layer of dog hair off his clothes. John said, "Well, that's done... It was Molly's idea. She wants to look like two different dogs when she's coming and going. She thinks it will make it easier for her to steal food... That's one complicated dog, Dave. Have you started on the bomb?

  David Wong

  Dog, Thinking, Hair

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.444, Titan Books

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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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• Classic line from Bones (vampire) to human who thinks human kind is ready for the vamps and ghouls to come out of the closet "The day your kind stops killing each other over skin colour or which God someone prays to, I might believe that".

  Jeaniene Frost

  Believe, Thinking, Ghouls

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• I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.

  Isabel Allende

  Dark, Night, Forever

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Peeling, Feels

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The blood of Heaven binds you," said the Queen. "Blood calls to blood, under the skin. But love and blood are not the same." "Riddles," Clary said angrily. "Do you even mean anything when you talk like that?" "He is bound to you," said the Queen. "But does he love you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Love You, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1461, Simon and Schuster

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• When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Powerful, Cities

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• I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

  Aimee Bender

  Clothes, Dating, Would Be

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