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“I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.”

Ifs Would Be Justice Walks Morning Gone Terrible Skins Terror Shed Heartless Gone Away

Book:Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

Source: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

“When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with my whole body. I would let death enter me as you had entered me. You had crept along my blood vessels through the wound, and the blood that circulates returns to the heart. You circulated me, you made me blush like a girl in the hoop of your hands. You were in my arteries and my lymph, you were the colour just under my skin, and if I cut myself, it was you I bled. Red Isolde, alive on my fingers, and always the force of blood pushing you back to my heart.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Made Whole Body Hands Faces Girl Force Cutting Alive Blood Return My Heart My Friends Red Skins Fingers Wounds Colour Pushing Traps Vessel Arteries Blood Vessels

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?”

Ifs Soul Left Brain Wonder Watches Grace Skins Celebrate My Soul Grieving Collections Makeup Chemicals Metals Rejoice Liquid There Is No God Daily Living

Author:Sharon Shinn

“Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adjective, we have the excitement of seeing them coming irresistibly to the surface through the skin and the eyes and upsetting the composure of our feelings, sometimes the nerves that can not bear it any longer, they put up with a great deal, they put up with everything, it was as if they were wearing armor, we might say.”

Ifs Knows Two Sometimes Feelings Seems Might Eye Three Simple Deals Four Seeing Bears Skins Surface Upset Excitement Nerves Deceiving Can Not Armor Adjectives Composure Pronouns Adverbs

Author:Jose Saramago

“In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.”

Ifs Made Together Remember Lying Memories Skins Bones Hated Distinction Loved Ones Foe Mourn Our Memories Graveyard

Author:Steven Brust

“It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine.”

Ifs Believe Light Seems Used Cutting Skins Shining Yesterday

Book:The art of drowning

Source: The art of drowning

“If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.”

Ifs Knows Names Color Skins Dinosaurs Crayon

Author:Sarah Weeks

“If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”

Ifs World Humans Eye Ability Magic Skins Sight Moved Human Eyes

Author:Gregory Maguire

“It looks as though your shop is doing well," Luka said gazing around, "Could you help me find a gift for a lady friend of mine?" My heart plunged to my grenn satin slippers, and I had to stare down at Azarte for a minute, petting him hard. Naturally Luka had a "lady friend." She was probably nobly born: the daughter of a count or a duke. I imagined her having thick dark hair and clear skin, and was bitterly jealous. "Of course," I stammered after a time. "What would she like? A gown? A sash?" If she came in for a fitting, I decided to "accidentlly" poke her with every pin.”

“Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.”

Ifs Form Skins Surface

Book:The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

“However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.”

Ifs World Trying Turns Baby Please Skins Breaths Blue Green Slap Nannies

Book:The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

“While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.”

Ifs Feels Writing Ends Faces Skins Wings Drawing Opening Pens Butterfly Old Fashioned Pencils Feathers Closing Geese Quills

Book:Alias Grace: A Novel

Source: Alias Grace: A Novel

“In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.”

“Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old--which is apparently about the average age for a pillow--it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung.”

Ifs Thinking Years May Has Beens Made Home Age Differences Millions Cases Bed Six Skins Weight Clean Average Just One Making A Difference Pillow Six Year Olds

Author:Bill Bryson

“The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath”

Ifs Fit Skins Lays Mask Closest

Author:Michelle Sagara

“Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.”

“Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the center of a great storm. Around us the world of the realms revolves like a giant kaleidoscope, images refracted again and again. So many worlds! So much to know.”

Ifs Knows World Pain Desire Skins Longing Storm Realms Giants Yearning Fierce Again And Again Remorse Kaleidoscope

Book:Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.”

Ifs Should Wanted Comfortable Skins Notion Ran Approval Grain Negotiation Milieu

Author:Charles J. Shields

“Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.”

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

“Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.”

Ifs Eye Faces Wind Skins Dresses Green Milk Cheeks Sixteen Fluttering Green Eyes Brunette

Author:Daniel Woodrell

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get." I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.”

Ifs Knows Whole Wanted Lines White Secret Talking Skins Harder Blue Faults Deeper Cracks Somewhere Else Pulse Relatable Thumbs Wrists

Author:John Green

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”

Ifs Whole Truth Wanted White Secret Skins Harder Blue Deeper Somewhere Else Pulse Relatable Thumbs Wrists Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“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.”

Ifs Persons Care Running Grows Doors Hair Kings Moon Daughter Shadow Skins Prison Dare Cherish Running Away Crave Mistress Shackles

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock my the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.”

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

Ifs Love Beauty Fire Moon Skins Inner Beauty Beauty Within Beauty Inside And Outer Beauty

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Sometimes, if you're lucky, someone comes into your life who'll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who's tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones.”

Ifs Love Heart Sometimes Blood Dog Lucky Shadow Skins Deeper Bones Twins Snoop Dog

Author:Snoop Dogg

“Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?”

Ifs Needs Believe Enough Helping Hands Law Next Walks Mines Arms Skins Responsible Yeah Things To Do Right Thing Sat Lap Helping Someone

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

Ifs Way Looks Persons Eye Faces Young Skins Lips Your Face Smooth Relaxed Old Picture

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Being In Love Means hard questions. Will I? Won't I? Should I? Could I? Yes? No? You? Me? There is no me without you. Is there a you without me? And if were truly one. how will I breathe when circomstance pries us apart? You are my oxygen. my substance, the blood inside my veins. When we touch, you are my skin. hold all my joy inside of you. When you go, I wither.”

Ifs Should Mean Hard Joy Blood Skins Breathe Substance Should I Veins Oxygen Being In Love Without You Love Means Hard Questions

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.”

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“Grace. I held on to that name. If I kept that in my head, I would be OK. Grace. I was shaking, shaking; my skin peeling away. Grace. My bones squeezed, pinched, pressed against my muscles. Grace. Her eyes held me even after I stopped feeling her fingers gripping my arms. Sam," she said. "Don't go.”

Ifs Said Feelings Would Be Eye Names Grace Arms Skins Fingers Bones Muscles Her Eyes Shaking Gripping Peeling

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“If you can't feel, why did you kiss me?" Patch traced a finger along my collarbone, then headed south stopping at my heart. I felt it pounding through my skin. "Because I feel it here, in my heart," he said quietly.”

Ifs Feels Heart Said Felt My Heart Kissing Skins South Fingers Stopping Patches Kiss Me Hush Patch Cipriano Patch And Nora Hush Hush

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“I go to the saltwater and wash off the blood, trying to decide which I hate more, pain or itching. Fed up, I stomp back onto the beach, turn my face upward and snap, "Hey, Haymitch, if you're not too drunk, we could use a little something for our skin." It's almost funny how quickly the parachute appears above me. I reach up and the tube lands squarely in my open hand. "About time" I say, but I can't keep the scowl on my face. Haymitch. What I wouldn't give for five minutes of conversation with him.”

Ifs Giving Trying Littles I Can Use Hands Pain Faces Hate Turns Five Blood Land Minutes Conversation Skins I Hate Drunk Hey Beach Feds Five Minutes Snaps Tubes Fed Up Parachutes Haymitch Itching

Author:Suzanne Collins

“That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own.”

Ifs Thinking Want Children Sometimes Hard Used Grows Difficult Growing Up Comfortable Skins Everyday Folks

Author:Colum McCann

“I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.”

Ifs Needs Feels Stills Whole Body Lying Sides Black Hair Bed Safe Skins Warm Harm Satisfied Coal Pins Blanket Ribbons Come Back To Me Mojo

Author:Jeff Buckley

“Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars. . . ." "You'd get arrested all over again." "Well, you're just that tempting. Jailbait." He kissed her fingers, which made her shiver all over; his lips lingered warm on her skin, reminding her of what it felt like to be alone with him, in that timeless.”

Ifs Wells Long Made Moments Felt Skins Breaths Silent Fingers Lips Warm Bars If I Could Convince Timeless Arrested Reminding Tempting Shiver Shane

Author:Rachel Caine

“Beat him until there’s no skin left on his back. If he passes out, wake him and beat him again. (Father) Love you, too, Father. (Acheron)”

Ifs Father Left Love You Beats Skins

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“If I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss. Without dreams,I have to be content with my own imagination—which is almost as good. I can picture all those things perfectly.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels I Can Dream Imagination Dark My Own Hair Kissing Skins Fingers Lips Smell If I Could Silk Dimitri Fierceness Dark Hair Dimitri Rose

Author:Richelle Mead

“I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life.”

Ifs Men World Done Eye Lines Wonder Battle Skins Checks Champion Chocolate Milk Metals Capes Shuffle Cafeteria Standstill Chocolate Milk

Author:Austin Grossman

“So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. They danced through the room, painting stained glass pictures, tickling the skin. Even when Meggie nodded off she could still hear them, although Mo had closed the book long ago. Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams. And not a single bad dream came over that wall for the rest of the night.”

“Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.”

“Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English...?”

Ifs Wells Looks Girl Speak Summer Skins Faults Clouds Fallen Pale Floats

Book:Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

“Yes, but if we hurt the Abadonna in the process, we’re going to find out what it feels like to be turned inside out. Literally. Like most beings, I actually like the fact that my skin is outside my body. (Urian)”

Ifs Feels Facts Body Process Hurt Skins

Book:Kiss of the Night

Source: Kiss of the Night

“What’ cha doing out here all alone? Did you forget how to find Sanctuary? (Simi) No. I want to be alone for a bit. (Gallagher) Why? Were the bears mean to you? Mama can get a bit cranky whenever I play with the cubs. She thinks I’m going to eat one, but bleh! They’re way too hairy. Now if she’d let me skin one, I might be interested. (Simi) Are you joking? (Gallagher) Oh no. I never joke about hairy food. (Simi)”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Mean Play Might Bits Forget Bears Jokes Skins Let Me Mama Sanctuary All Alone Cubs Cranky Gallagher Wants To Be Alone

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world”

Ifs World Ends Body Stars Sides Darkness Worry Sky Skins Wave Floats Mundane

Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.”

Ifs Believe Dream Hands Eye Memories Skins Don't Believe Unhappy Plastic Cheeks Powder Vacant Doughnut

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I can't say it more clearly. I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.”

“It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all.”

Ifs Trying Looks Walks Struggle Fit Skins Fraud Pulling Look At Me Pruning Tugging

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll design myself special glasses. They'll block out whether people are fat or thin or beautiful or weird-looking, whether they have pimples or birthmarks or different coloured skin. They'll do everything suffering's done for us, but without the pain. I'm going to wear those glasses for the rest of my life.”

People Ifs Different Done Seems Pain Beautiful Suffering Special Design Essentials Skins Glasses Fats Block Only Time Vow Pimples Birthmarks

Book:The Night is for Hunting

Source: The Night is for Hunting

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