Skins Quotes - Page 6

• And your skin, it tastes like me. I want to taste you everywhere.

  Larissa Ione

  Want, Taste, Like Me

  Larissa Ione (2011). “Desire Unchained: Number 2 in series”, p.100, Hachette UK

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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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• She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elemental level. Then he purred, and Naya made a happy little sound of delight, very much a cat in her love of touch.

  Nalini Singh

  Cat, Hands, Bed

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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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• Death holds no allure for me, Elena.” The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. “Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.

  Nalini Singh

  Cutting, Fire, White

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.215, Penguin

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• Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you've never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn't frighten you...my dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside

  Jose Saramago

  Two, Darkness, Body

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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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• In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Summer, Senior, Mother

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.228, Random House

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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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• What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.

  Julio Cortazar

  Life, Rain, Thinking

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• I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for a man: as one might stretch for the three or four fruit that lie in the sun at the top of the tree; too ripe for any moment but this, they open their skin at first touch, yielding sweetness, sweetness and heat, and in me, each time since, the answering yes.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Lying, Moving, Love You

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• It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.

  Marguerite Duras

  Wrinkles, Substance, Done

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.4, Pantheon

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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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• The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.

  Wallace Stevens

  Yellow, Orange, Glisten

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.219, Vintage

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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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• Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Home, Thinking

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.120, Random House

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• HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so WHY push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is WHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway, WHEN did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person WHO lives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you - WHAT is perfect.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Two, Creating, People

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.

  Nalini Singh

  Body, Requirements, Great Things

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.58, Penguin

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• There walked warlocks in all their bat-winged, cat-eyed glory, and here, as they swung out over the river, she saw the darting flash of multicolored tails under the silvery skin of the water, the shimmer of long, pearl-strewn hair, and heard the high, rippling laughter of the mermaids.

  Cassandra Clare

  Laughter, Cat, Hair

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.

  Rick Riordan

  Lions, Cloaks, Ifs

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