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“We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.”

Thinking Looks Beautiful Space Color Judging Internet Involved Skins Bases Converses Skin Color

Author:Bell Hooks

“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.”

“We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.”

Thinking Stills Able Water Space Sea Birth Creatures Skins Filled Suits

Book:Voices from the Sky

Source: Voices from the Sky

“The body does not end with our skin - it extends into time, into space, and into other people.”

People Doe Ends Body Space Skins

Author:Stanley Krippner

“The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.”

Facts Space Cutting Feet Century Fit Skins British Saving Collections Museums Burned Zeal 18th Century Bonfire British Museum

Author:Adam Savage

“And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.”

Space Comfort Skins Invading

Author:Stephen King

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”

Way Mind Made Together Jobs Girl Felt Space Animal Knowing Color Understood Skins Active Noise Twins Disguise Identical Imprisonment Fathom Dreamy Being A Girl Virgin Suicides

Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”

People Should Made Dies Space Husband Skins Mirrors Tables Absence Vague Dressings One Love Pillow Odor Pajamas Slippers

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me; I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.”

Thinking I Can Eye Space Secret Cold Kissing Skins Fingers Invisible Shirts Pulling Fists Kiss Me Streaks Space Between Wrapping

Author:Veronica Roth

“But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.”

Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

“We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically. I like feeling the power of light and space physically because then you can order it materially. Seeing is a very sensuous act-there's a sweet deliciousness to feeling yourself see something.”

Feels Littles Feelings Light Order Space Vision Seeing Sweet Drink Skins Awe Exposure Sensuous

Author:James Turrell

“The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't make sense how people on earth treat each other. It doesn't make any difference what language we speak. It doesn't make any difference what country we come from. It certainly doesn't make any difference what the color of our skin is. We are all children of God traveling on spaceship earth together.”