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“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”

Men Way Mean Soul Speak Understanding Born Color Birth Skins Weight Equality Tone Brotherhood Dice Bakers Born Free Birth Place Skin Tone

Author:Josephine Baker

“Holly: Seriously, you don't like unicorns? What kind person doesn't like unicorns? Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you? Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way. Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me?”

Way Kind Persons Done Fall Bits Hair Skins Cells Zombie Unicorn Hollies Justine Kind Person

Author:Holly Black

“My captivity with Dimitri. The way his mouth—so, so warm, despite his cold skin—had kissed mine. The feel of his fangs pressing into my neck and the sweet bliss that followed... He looked exactly the same too, with that chalky white pallor and red-ringed eyes that so conflicted with the soft, chin-length brown hair and otherwise gorgeous lines of his face. He even had a leather duster on.”

Way Feels Eye Faces Lines White Mines Sweet Hair Cold Mouths Red Skins Warm Despite Bliss Necks Brown Length Gorgeous Leather Chins Fangs Captivity Dimitri Brown Hair

Book:Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel

“Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.”

Way Whole Water Percent Hundred Skins Surface Tiny Mud Ponds Iceberg Tip Of The Iceberg

Author:Siobhan Dowd

“We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do" or "love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies." We are taught "love thy neighbor". No exceptions. We are all in this together - every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences.”

“There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.”

Ifs Way Looks Beautiful Faces Skins Lovely Snakes Bugs Twisted Rotten Poisonous Lovable Pretty Face

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Alek was right behind her now, his body pressing close as he adjusted her sword arm. She hadn't realized this fencing business would be so touchy. He grasped her waist, sending a crackle across her skin. If Alek moved his hands any higher, he might notice what was hidden beneath her careful tailoring. “Always keep sideways to your opponent,” he said, gently turning her. “That way, your chest presents the smallest possible target.” “Aye, the smallest possible target,” Deryn sighed. Her secret was safe, it seemed.”

Ifs Way Said Body Hands Might Would Be Secret Behinds Arms Higher Safe Skins Moved Careful Opponents Target Chests Smallest Sideways Touchy Fencing

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elemental level. Then he purred, and Naya made a happy little sound of delight, very much a cat in her love of touch.”

Way Littles Made Body Hands Sound Levels Bed Cat Skins Delight Tiny Covered Chests Bonding Elementals Changelings

Author:Nalini Singh

“I want you." Feeling the grip of his hand in mine, the brush of skin on mine, seeing the way he moved in front of me, equal parts human and wolf, and remembering his smell - I ached with wanting to kiss him.”

Way Want Humans Feelings Hands Remember Seeing Fronts Mines Kissing Equal Skins Moved Smell I Want You Brushes

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We’re all witches beneath the skin.”

People Men Way Life Mind Wish Mankind Son Skins Invention Cures One Way Witch Folklore Olden Days

Book:The flood

Source: The flood

“This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling of fortune; the unlucky masses hoping to skin or borrow the luck of others, or the luck of a destination. A seductive notion, and one I thought to be wary of. To me, luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.”

Men Way Character Feelings Known Mass Roots Gold Skins Luck Lays Fortune Notion Honestly Tricks Destination Seductive Hysteria Strength Of Character Unlucky Bluffs Gold Rush

Author:Patrick deWitt

“The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.”

Way Feels Body Would Be Used Night Realizing Grief Cold Happenings Standing Skins Opposites Endure Winter Warm Heat Warmth Draining Winter Night Body Heat

Author:Rob Sheffield

“A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.”

Source: The Lost World

“I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.”

“Dan instantly recognized the angry scratch that stretched from the corner of Ian's eye all the way along the olive skin to his chin. "Have you been messing with Saladin?" "No. Saladin has been messing with me," Ian shot back. "He isn't big on Lucians," Dan explained. "Animals are really good judges of character.”

Way Has Beens Character Bigs Eye Animal Judging Shots Skins Angry Corners Scratches Chins Olives Good Judges Judge Of Character Saladin

Author:Gordon Korman

“Is your skin this tone all over?" "Only one way you're going to discover the answer to that.”

Way Answers Skins One Way Tone

Author:Nalini Singh

“I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.”

Knows Way Littles Sometimes Pain Found Given Walks Bears Walking Solitude Lonely Skins Luck Stranger

Author:Alan Moore

“Some of the memories were not clear - -dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin.”

“I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for a man: as one might stretch for the three or four fruit that lie in the sun at the top of the tree; too ripe for any moment but this, they open their skin at first touch, yielding sweetness, sweetness and heat, and in me, each time since, the answering yes.”

Men Way Firsts May Littles Stills Moments Might Moving Lying Three Sun Forever Four Tree Love You Skins Fruit Knees Heat Bent Sweetness Ripe Love You Forever

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“There is no lock strong enough nor wall thick enough to keep Death out," he murmured, his lips close to my ear so that I could feel the puff of his breath against my skin. The ends of a couple of his braids had found their way under the collar of my flannel night-shirt and tickled the base of my neck. "Are you speaking literally or metaphorically?”

Way Feels Ends Enough Night Found Strong Wall Couple Skins Ears Breaths Lips Shirts Necks Thick Locks Strong Enough Collars Puff Braids Flannels

Book:Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series

Source: Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series

“Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.”

Thinking Knows Way Said Sometimes Home Turns Wall Mass Skins Corners Bones Maps Expecting Floating Rope Recognise Surgeons Whales Back Home Jonah Flasks

Book:Written On The Body

Source: Written On The Body

“War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here." She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning.”

Way Heart Said War Hands Felt Blood Taught Skins Moved Breasts Touched Chests Scar Tenderness Smooth Way To Live Smooth Skin

Author:Laini Taylor

“I stopped in the full force of a patch of sunlight in the lobby window and let my skin soak up the energy. I hadn’t realized I needed it until it reached inside and stilled me in a way that only David’s touch had been able to achieve. “Why does that feel so good?” I asked. “And don’t tell me it’s because we’ve been shut in a room for days.” “Like calls to like,” he said. “You’re made of fire now.” “So I’m going to feel like this every time I pass an open flame? Great. Firegasm.”

Way Feels Doe Made Said Able Energy Force Rooms Fire Achieve Needed Window Skins Flames Sunlight Patches

Author:Rachel Caine

“Strangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she had leaned into his neck, as if she trusted him utterly. He would have given everything he had in the world and everything he would ever have, just to lie beside her in the narrow infirmary bed and hold her while she slept. Pulling away from her had been like pulling his own skin off, but he'd had to do it.”

Ifs World Way Mind Heart Lying Given Memories Bed Skins Balls Lips Necks Trusted Pulling Heart And Mind Pulling Away

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.”

Knows Way Looks May Hands Eye Passion Wonder Mouths Skins Fingers Wide Excess Trash

Author:Holly Black

“I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want.”

Thinking Way Want Needs Feels Years Looks I Can Happens Able Jobs Beautiful My Own Saws Figures Comfortable Skins Mirrors Like Me Vanity Hated Feeling Beautiful

Author:Christine Feehan

“I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back.”

Way Body Moving Mines Skins Fingers Tongue Throat Mesmerized

Author:Lauren Oliver

“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)

“Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.”

Way Needs Sometimes Lying Skins

Book:The Mystery of Grace

Source: The Mystery of Grace

“The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful of destroying the delicate camaraderie they are building. He steals glances instead, watching the way the light falls over her skin. Several times he catches her regarding him in a similar manner, and the moments when she holds his eyes with hers are sublime.”

Way Moments Light Eye Fall Silence Building Comfortable Skins Stealing His Eyes Destroying Delicate Fearful Sublime Glances Camaraderie

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.”

Way Want Used Father Cat Skins One Way Bothered

Book:Surfacing

Source: Surfacing

“There are no words for how much I will miss her, but I try to kiss her so that she'll know. I try to kiss her to tell her the whole story of my love, the way I dreamed of her when she was dead, the way that every other girl seemed like a mirror that showed me her face. The way my skin ached for her. The way that kissing her made me feel like I was drowning and like I was being saved all at the same time. I hope she can taste all that, bittersweet, on my tongue.”

Knows Way Feels Trying Made Whole Stories Faces Girl Missing Taste Kissing Skins Mirrors Tongue Saved Drowning Bittersweet Other Girl Kissing Her

Author:Holly Black

“Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.”

Men World Way May Matter Reason Beautiful Young Flower Perfection Skins Hunger Ugly Flesh Fats Reason Why Convince Fabric Feathers Shantaram Thighs Velvet

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“The collision was impending and electric, but the moment was soft and sweet: She positively glowed as she looked up at him. "What," she whispered, palming his face. Vin took a moment to memorize her features and the way she felt beneath him, seeing her not just through his eyes, but feeling her with his skin and his heart. "Hello, lovely lady...hello.”

Way Heart Moments Feelings Eye Faces Felt Seeing Sweet Skins Lovely Features His Eyes Electric Hello Positively Collision Lovely Lady

Book:Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels

Source: Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels

“The way he kissed me felt like a brand. Like he was tattooing himself under my skin.”

Way Felt Skins Brands

Author:Tammara Webber

“I told them that when you were born, God was so delighted that He sent a hundred angels to kiss you while you were in your mother's arms. Every place where the angels kissed you, they left a tiny dot. That way, if you ever forget how greatly you are loved by God, all you have to do is look at your skin, and you will remember.”

Ifs Way Looks Remember Mother Left Born Forget Arms Kissing Hundred Angel Skins Tiny Delighted Dots

Author:Robin Jones Gunn

“As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.”

Source: Ready Player One

“She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his, as if she'd die if he left her.”

Ifs Way Important Dies Passion Left Felt Understood Skins

Book:Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

“In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be.”

Way Heart Whole Lines Middle Baby Skins Suicide Whole Life Spots Get Back Meant To Be Closest Pulse Wrists Were Meant To Be Acupuncture

Book:Clown Girl: A Novel

Source: Clown Girl: A Novel

“I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anyways, don’t you? And if you don’t, I’ll always have the hope that you do, and i’m satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.”

Ifs Way Littles My Own Love You Skins Satisfied Adore Love You More Adore You I Love You More You Don't Love Me I Adore You Artist Love

Author:Frida Kahlo

“i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.”

Way Want Giving Giving Up Skins Who I Am Slips Shed Snakes I Want To Give Up

Book:And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.”

“You are such a chick." I widened my eyes in mock surprise. "No way. Are you sure?" Sighing again, he rubbed at the tattoos on his wrist. "Mackenzie was right. You aren't slayer material." Before he had time to register my intentions, I threw a punch. My sore, swollen knuckles slammed into his cheekbone, thrusting his head to the side. Pain shot up my arm, but I bit my tongue to stop a moan. "You were saying?" He popped his jaw, rubbed at the reddening skin-and slowly grinned. "Okay, so now I understand why Cole likes you. You're worse than Kat.”

Source: The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts

“Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.”

Ifs Way Looks Happens Faces Skins Blue Green Colour Ink Purple Sibling Tris Knuckles Collide Caleb

Author:Veronica Roth

“I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel.”

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.”

Way Love Real Honesty Skins Real Love

Book:A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

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