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Quotes About Skin

A savage awareness seemed to ride the spinning sand, reaching relentlessly past the folds of their telaban, a thousand abrasive fingers clawing paths across their skin. Loose cloth and rope ends spiked upward, whipping with urgent rhythm. The roar filled the air, filled their skulls.
~ Steven Erikson
The air smelled exotically of old incense and Shan's skin prickled as if emanations from past conjourings still crackled in the folds of the universe.
~ Storm Constantine
The whole city made his skin itch with discomfort, as if conspiracies were incubating in every dark corner. Whispers would sometimes seem to follow him down twisting alley that were like canyons between the high narrow buildings. Valraven was being led into this labyrinth. A monster was waiting for him.
~ Storm Constantine
She was aware of all he was; a mind, thinking, impenetratable. Light played on his skin, deepening the hollows of his throat.
~ Storm Constantine
He readied for the hand of the demon who rode him, held it tight until the nails broke the skin. He had already learned that sex conjured images in his head, and this time there were unbelievably vivid. He sensed that the man who possessed him wore the aspect of a demon like a garment. Within, in ignorance, he was a being of light, and the commerce of their flesh was sacred. If Daniel concentrated on this aspect, it became more real in his mind.
~ Storm Constantine
The moon sailed up the star-shot sky and the air colled towards the graveyard hours beyond the midnight chilling my skin through my lace stole.
~ Storm Constantine
His flawless skin looked shockingly clean against the oily wool of his jumper.
~ Storm Constantine
Guthrie handed him the mug, a wee pout pulling his pale face out of shape. With his semi-skimmed skin, faint ginger hair, and blond eyebrows he looked like a ghost that had been at the pies. "Milk, two sugars.
~ Stuart MacBride
My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.
~ Sue Townsend
Most English people are horrified that I use soap, but I like it - it works for my skin. I try different soaps all the time, but I use very mild ones.
~ Marie Helvin
A lot of the figure skating costumes are kind of revealing, so I think it's nice to have glowing, soft, smooth skin.
~ Tessa Virtue
I moisturise my feet every day with Scholl Dry Skin Instant Recovery Cream, a non-greasy cream which leaves my feet feeling soft and supple instantly.
~ Laura Whitmore
When you learn how to be really attentive, you learn the importance of patience and appreciating a woman. You're able to appreciate the softness of her skin and the look in her eyes. It's a connection.
~ Lamman Rucker
Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing.
~ Petra March
What should I feel after carving my bones? peeling off my skin? after sculpted my soul and damaging my fervour, just as the way you desire your appetite must be.Abandoned, forsaken, empty, perhaps..
~ ehddah
How envious I am that the sun may kiss your porcelain skin and forever change how the world sees you.
~ Phar West Nagle
Your words... I hold them deeplike ancient skinshold wrinkles.
~ Sanober Khan
Doncs sí, dic. Els humans perdem més o menys vint quilos de pell durant tota la vida, la renovem completament cada mes. […] L'Ona […] diu que si el que he explicat jo és cert, la pell que elles, les dones, tenien en el moment dels assalts, ara ja ha desaparegut, ja ha mudat. Somriu.
~ Miriam Toews
She told me that the brain is built to forget things as we continue to live, that memories are meant to fade and disintegrate, that skin, so protective in the beginning because it has to be to protect our organs, saga eventually - because the organs aren't so hot anymore either - and sharp edges become blunt, that the pain of letting go of grief is just as panful or even more painful than the grief itself.
~ Miriam Toews
I hooked the condom out with the end of a spoon and dropped it into the bottom of a white bin-bag, where it lay, dried out and brown, as transparent as old human skin.
~ Mo Hayder
But his dislike was so obvious, so intimate, that it got under my skin. I
~ Mohsin Hamid
inside the entrance, along with his bow, otter skin quiver, and the case that held his rifle. She
~ Nancy Morse
Since hominin skin doesn't fossilize, we can't say for sure what skin color our ancestors had four million years ago. But if our closest living primate relatives—gorillas and chimpanzees—are any guide, they likely had light skin.
~ Carl Zimmer
In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon