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Quotes About Skin

What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Een huivering liep als op dunne spinnenpoten heen en weer over zijn rug, zette zich vast tussen zijn schouderbladen en trok met fijne klauwtjes zijn hoofdhuid strak naar achteren.
~ Robert Musil
Ms. Harrison paled so that the makeup floated on her suddenly pale skin like impressionist water lilies.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.
~ Lauren Willig
The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Tell me how she behaves and I will imitate her. In the dark we are all meat and treacherous however our hair kinks or skin smells. Tell me, and I will give you the wedding-smile and fall into your arms like a mountain of silk.
~ Lawrence Durrell
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Dermatology ... this young daughter of medicine ...
~ Paul Gerson Unna
Sleeping AtlantisSilent cool watersdancing upon her skin ~silent cool waterushering dreams within...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors.
~ Steven Magee
The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They're lost in the shadows of the moon.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
The skin of her face, parched by the monotonous dietof salty rain, with tremendous effortgave wayto a smile.
~ Anna Jae
Human enjoyment was a fragile skin drawn over a great depth of potential misery
~ Adam Roberts
There were, Mouritz believed, three forms of the disease: one which attacked primarily the skin, and which spread rapidly and horribly throughout the body; one which attacked the nerves, progressing more slowly and with less deformity; and certain borderline cases, a mix of the two. Haleola had the neural form;
~ Alan Brennert
Serpents are symbols of change and renewal. Like the earth they renew their fertility by replacing old skin with new. Since they could slither above and below the earth, they were considered keepers of the earth's secrets and hence symbols of occult lore.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
~ Djuna Barnes
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
~ Djuna Barnes
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
~ Terence McKenna
An hour later, I check my Facebook page. Violet has written: "Arrange whatever pieces come your way." My skin starts to burn. She's quoting Virginia Woolf back to me. My pulse has tripled its pace. Shit, I think. That's all the Virginia Woolf I know.
~ Jennifer Niven
Never throw away squeezed lemon, but keep them for the day by the sink. Then you can use them to remove fish, onion or garlic smells from your fingers. Or you can stick them on your elbows while you are reading a book, to soften and whiten your skin.
~ Jennifer Paterson
That was the problem with being so pale. Well, that and not being able to go out in bright sunlight without turning the color of a lobster and starting to smoke slightly.
~ Jenny Colgan
My heart pounded when its counterpart thumped beneath his skin. "How?" "I don't care," he said, and kissed me.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
toca sus corazones, la piel empieza a transpirar a desear.
~ Jesús Rodríguez
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
~ Jesse Jackson