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“There walked warlocks in all their bat-winged, cat-eyed glory, and here, as they swung out over the river, she saw the darting flash of multicolored tails under the silvery skin of the water, the shimmer of long, pearl-strewn hair, and heard the high, rippling laughter of the mermaids.”

Long Water Saws Heard Hair Glory Laughter Rivers Cat Skins Flash Tails Bats Pearls Mermaid Warlocks Shimmer

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesn’t feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if your gut clenches up, if a wave of wrongness washes over you, if your heart starts beating faster, pay, pay, pay attention. Do not second-guess yourself or rationalize anything that impedes your safety. Our instincts are the animal inside of our humanness, warning us of danger.”

Ifs Feels Heart Animal Pay Attention Danger Hair Skins Safety Instinct Wave Faster Pay Attention Necks Guts Over You Warning Feels Right Crawling Rationalize Humanness

Author:Inga Muscio

“When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.”

“A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.”

Ifs Faces Girl Black Cutting Hair Rain Window Skins Tables Wings Flesh Sat Cheeks Smooth Coins Crow Cafes

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair and nails and makeup, fingers flying swiftly to compensate for her absent teammates. The whole time, she avoids my gaze. It’s only when Cinna shows up to approve me and dismiss her that she takes my hands, looks me straight in the eye, and says, “We would all like you to know what a…privilege it has been to make you look your best.” Then she hastens from the room.”

Knows Looks Doe Has Beens Whole Shows Hands Eye Rooms Like You Hair Determination Skins Fingers Privilege Flying Makeup Pale Nails Tattoo Absent Teammate Cinna Take My Hand

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Peeta crouches down on the other side of her and strokes her hair. When he begins to speak in a soft voice, it seems almost nonsensical, but the words aren’t for me. “With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.”

I Can Home Seems Speak Sides Voice Water Color Hair Baby Spring Skins Blue Green Paint Boxes Ice Grass Pale Strokes Peeta Nonsensical Shimmer

Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“'Will,' she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. 'Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break.'”

Needs Heart Hands Wanted Break Hair Mouths Skins Hot Painful Careful Spread Speed Burning Stomach Ache Knots

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.”

Way Looks Steps Team Hair Skins Ugly Attractive Damage Scare Scar Cleaning Acid Preps New Look

Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat tat drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. He;s aiming for oblivion.”

Mind Matter Seems Faces Tears Hair Arms Beats Tough Skins Fingers Strings Sweat Toms Oblivion Joints Calluses

Author:Melina Marchetta

“And for a moment there, despite the bruising, despite the snarled dirty hair, despite her sunburned skin and the suffering in her eyes that she refused to let defeat her, she was one of the prettiest things he'd ever seen. ~Dallas and Amy~”

Moments Eye Suffering Hair Skins Defeat Despite Dirty Her Eyes Prettiest

Author:Cindy Gerard

“They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound - the most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat....I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn't just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen...It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.”

Made Beautiful Three Felt Sound Alive Heard Hair Skins Ears Breaths Filled Senses Tunes Throat Beautiful Things Palms Vibrate Physical Things Auditoriums Tune Up

Author:Jojo Moyes

“Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes Rumbold-- You've m-met her? Velius--oh yes, my friend. we all know her. we've all pursued her. some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. we've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble”

“The two of us warmed by a bold beam of light that wicks the moisture from my dress, my hair, and my skin—returning it to the sky where it promises to find me again in the form of dew, snow, or rain.”

Two Light Form Sky Hair Promise Rain Skins Dresses Snow Find Me Dew Beam Two Of Us Moisture Beams Of Light

Author:Alyson Noel

“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.”

Feelings Air Hair Taste Mouths Romantic Skins Rounds Smell Nineteen Hopeless Romantic

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“She kissed me on the mouth. Her mouth tasted like iced coffee and cardamom, and I was overwhelmed by the taste, her hot skin and the smell of unwashed hair. I was confused, but not unwilling. I would have let her do anything to me.”

Hair Taste Mouths Skins Hot Smell Coffee Confused Overwhelmed Unwilling

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.”

Feels I Can Young Walks Cities Streets Hair Holy Skins Necks Pedestrians City Streets Solipsism

Book:Wilderness

Source: Wilderness

“I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”

Soul Hair Skins

Author:Rumi

“Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.”

Hair Skins Dating Lips

Author:Junot Diaz

“We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.”

Years Heart Lasts Young Grows White Our Lives Hair Skins Bones Plenty Ache Wrinkles Every Second

Book:Sever

Source: Sever

“Do you think you have the right to give me orders now?" The Archangel of New York, a creature so lethal that part of her feared him even now, lifted the hair off her nape, brushed his lips across her skin. "Of course. You are mine." No hint of humor, nothing but stark possession. "I don't think you've quite got the hang of this true love thing.”

Thinking Giving Order Courses New York Mines Hair Creatures Skins Give Me Lips Possession Hints Starks Archangel

Book:Archangel's Kiss

Source: Archangel's Kiss

“It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful." She leaned forward and touched his face lightly, the smooth skin over his hard cheekbone, his hair like feathers against the back of her hand. "I saw rivers, boats like flowers, all the colors of the night sky.”

Soul Hard Hands Beautiful Faces Night Saws Sky Color Flower Hair Rivers Skins Notes Boat Your Soul Touched Smooth Feathers Night Sky Cheekbones Smooth Skin

Book:Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Marlee, what are you doing? Get under a tent before you burn your skin." She gave me a polite smile. "I'm happy here." "No, really," I said, putting a hand around her arm. "You'll look like my hair.”

Looks Said Hands Hair Arms Skins Polite Tents

Author:Kiera Cass

“What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?”

Culture Church Justice Color Son Hair Demand Diversity Skins Social Justice Audacity Nappies

Author:Dick Gregory

“I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.”

Knows Justice Color Hair Listening Diversity Mouths Skins Social Justice Spread Kink I Am The Best

Author:Leontyne Price

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