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Quotes About Skin

I hate being tan.
~ Stephen Malkmus
He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.
~ Richard Kadrey
but monsters are always hungry, darling, and they're only a few steps behind you, finding the flaw, the poor weld, the place where we weren't stitched up quite right, the place they could almost slip right through if the skin wasn't trying to keep them out, to keep them there, on the other side
~ Richard Siken
Ned, what's wrong with your face? I don't think you've been drying thoroughly between the folds and interstices.
~ Richard Stevenson
He froze, and for one moment, we stood locked in time. I could feel the silk of his shirt against my skin and the warmth of his body. The lingering scent of the overpriced cologne he wore floated around me. No smoke for a change. I'd always told him the cologne couldn't be worth what he spent, but suddenly, I reconsidered. It was amazing.
~ Richelle Mead
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
Their skin hung loose over their bodies like suits they had inherited from larger ancestors, with the trousers ridiculously baggy.
~ Roald Dahl
This death-and-life mystery, this mechanism, this process is built into the very fabric of creation. The cells in our bodies are dying at a rate of millions a second, only to be replaced at a similar rate of millions a second. Our skin is constantly flaking off and our body is continually replacing the skin cells with new ones; we have entirely new skin every week or so.
~ Rob Bell
and when you're home, what's wrong with skin? Or as near as local custom permits.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Krista Morales had a heart-shaped face, golden skin, and a smile that dimpled her right cheek. Her eyes were deep chocolate, and her hair glistened with the deep black sheen of a crow's wing in the sun. I smiled at the picture, then handed it back. "Pretty.
~ Robert Crais
feel on my skin and within my mind. Sometimes being psychic like my mom really sucked. I wrapped my fingers around my keys and hit the automatic opener. As the old metal gate began to grind and screech its way to one side, I couldn't
~ Keri Arthur
Occasionally, the light seemed to arrive from a distinct direction, like the sun slanting through a gap in a curtain, but often it simply infused whatever aches or traumas afflicted people. At such times, it had the appearance of a strange luminescent paint layered directly over their skin. They might have been angels in an El Greco painting.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrow, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it did not care a whit about the hopes and reams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It was a hot day, the sun biting the skin like it had teeth.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Don't hurt her!" I demanded, then shifted my expression to one I hoped looked lascivious enough. "I like untouched skin." Tom flushed. "Ah, we couldn't find a virgin.
~ Kim Harrison
Once I faced a female with diamond skin, Nix said breathlessly. I was transfixed - even as she was choking the life out of me. Really? No, I saw that character on X men. I just wanted to commiserate. Alas, I have no weaknesses. Except your insanity, Lucia pointed out. sigh. Well played, Archer. then carry on...
~ Kresley Cole
Eyes like amber cast in sun, skin and hair of firelit gold. Formed to war, courage as none, beauty to behold.' You are Reginleit the Radiant.
~ Kresley Cole
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .
~ Malcolm X
Her skin glowed in dawn's soft light sneaking in through curtains, and she stretched her arms up toward the ceiling in a move that elongated everything above her waist and below his belt.
~ Avery Flynn, Make Me Up
Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark. In modern times, a small difference in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group.
~ Yuval Noah Harari