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Quotes About Skin

One of the nice things about indoor training is you can make holds that are better on your skin, so you can train more before your fingers wear out. You can get stronger faster climbing inside.
~ Tommy Caldwell
It is necessary to look glamorous if your role demands it in Bollywood, but in Hollywood they like more of a natural look - clean skin, clean face and nicely done hair, but you still look glamorous.
~ Koena Mitra
I have to get used to it—to her, but she's put a light in him so I think I'm going to be a fan. You're a stand-up gal, Swede. If she screws him up, I'll peel the skin off her ass with a dull razor blade.
~ Nora Roberts
She was trembling, and so was he. Like the first time, he thought. For her. For him. And just as terrifying and tremendous. The late winter sun was a white wash of light through the windows. In the silence of the house he could hear every catch of her breath. When he skimmed his fingers lightly over her, she was all soft skin and quivers. Smooth. Warm. Beautiful.
~ Nora Roberts
and his pale skin showed signs of sunburn.
~ Nora Roberts
It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The skin along the parts in her hair, the skin above and behind the doctor's ears, is as clear and white as the skin inside her other tan lines must look. If women knew how their ears come across, the firm fleshy edge, the little dark hood at the top, all the smooth contours coiled and channeling you to the tight darkness inside, well, more women would wear their hair down.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Don't ever let anyone tell you that the imaginary is equivalent to the real: your skin, your vast breathing skin, will insist otherwise.
~ Claire Messud
Her skin was flawless and always cool, always pale; her body was long, like her hair, like her fingers, like her laughter; and her eyes, oh, her eyes, had every season of leaf in them: the twin greens of spring and high summer, the golds of autumn, and, in her rages, black midwinter rot.
~ Clive Barker
and a hooked nose. His skin was the color of weak tea.
~ Clive Cussler
Urquhart could somehow feel the glow on his skin as the hairs on his arms raised up and the thick pelt of man fur that covered his torso and back prickled as if the legs of a thousand insects were crawling on his body.
~ Clive Cussler
it means what it say, Ethel said. It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of Ham are not of that tribe. The were cursed, with black skin and tails. Where the Scripture condemns slavery, it is not speaking of negro slavery at all.
~ Colson Whitehead
Sunshine merely settles on the skin, it doesn't penetrate, or so I've found, he murmured cynically.
~ Violet Winspear
Darling, we're all whores under the skin, whether we give ourselves by calculation or by desire. It's just that some of us demand a higher price than others.
~ Virginia Henley
Sundaes cause acne.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
His body was worn and weathered, his skin scratched with lines mapping the miles of his life.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
She pretended his eyes weren't scouring her up and down, steel wool scraping her skin raw. Her
~ Laura Ruby
I looked up "skin" in the encyclopedia and confirmed that, sure enough, it is the human body's largest organ, a fact that suggests our surfaces are critical to who we are, not just the gateway to physical or spiritual depths but a profoundly important web of cells that, in protecting us, gives us form and function.
~ Lauren Slater
Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin but reach out to rasp us all.
~ Lauren Slater
How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)
~ Lauren Weisberger
breathing in the peculiar smell of the library: a mix of dust and leather and melted vanilla ice cream. Warm, like the scent of someone's skin.
~ Celeste Ng
how wide his shoulders were, like a swimmer's, his skin the color of tea, of fall leaves toasted by the sun.
~ Celeste Ng
Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.
~ Charles Frazier
Wotan leaned forward and light from the dim lamp fell on his face. Travers saw his bare eye socket, the skin stretched over the hole.
~ Gregg Hurwitz