“I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, For that I did not have I am a kings daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more.” IfsPersonsCareRunningGrowsDoorsHairKingsMoonDaughterShadowSkinsPrisonDareCherishRunning AwayCraveMistressShackles Author:Peter S. Beagle
“So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear. We didn't have much to say to each other, the ones that left and the ones that stayed. Children get shamed by fear but you can't tell the adults that; they don't care. They make children into dead things like they are. If there's something left alive in you, you run. You run from the poor little child on her knees; fear burned the skin off all right; she's still on her knees, dead and raw and tender.” IfsChildrenLittlesStillsBigsCareRunningLeftDifferencesPoorAliveChildhoodAdultsSkinsLeavingDon't CareKneesGoing AwayBurnedHumiliationMorbid Author:Andrea Dworkin
“Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.” IfsCareSkinsScarSmoothSilkParanoid Book:Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15 Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“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.” WorldDreamCareSimpleSorrowSkinsLaysBonesAbsurdHopes And DreamsSkin And Bones Book:And the Mountains Echoed Source: And the Mountains Echoed