Best skins & wind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.”

Knows Doe Stills Home Sleep Sea Land Wind Tomorrow Future Skins Trade Wave Blow Boat Hanging Out Fog Floats Folds Sleeping In

Book:Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

“It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.”

People Feels Important Hard Artist Wind Skins Comparison

Author:Shusha Guppy

“Technology has also had a big impact, especially on the bike. Now everything is tested aerodynamically, wind tunnels are used to optimize performance, and frames, wheels, water bottles are all tested. Even clothing, like my Castelli Stealth Top, is faster than skin.”

Bigs Used Water Technology Wind Skins Performances Impact Faster Wheels Bottles Clothings Bike Tested Tunnels Stealth Big Impact Water Bottles

Author:Timothy O'Donnell

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”

Writing Hands Moving Magic Blood Wind Skins Experts Prisoner Spiders Limbs Numb Silk Pierce

Book:The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”

Source: Trouble Is My Business: A Novel

“Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined. But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black.”

Source: Evernight (Evernight, Book 1)

“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

“At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitched zzzzzz that hummed along my skin. I watched their wings shining like bits of chrome in the dark and felt the longing build in my chest. The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam.”

Source: Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

“Part of you is the wind,” he murmured. “Oui, that is true. But even the wind sometimes rests.” Shaking her head, she slid her hand around the back of his neck, soaking in the intrinsically male heat of his skin. “Then consider me an endless storm.”

Sometimes Hands Wind Skins Males Storm Endless Heat Necks Shaking Soaking

Book:Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection

Source: Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection

“She had sand in her mouth and between her toes, the briny wind raising goose bumps on her skin, and the sweetest, spellbound feeling spilling from her heart. She could, at that moment, have died for him.”

Heart Moments Feelings Wind Mouths Skins Died Sand That Moment Toes Sweetest Bumps Geese Spilling

Book:The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition

Source: The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition

“My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin, and make me feel alive again.”

Feels Alive Fans Wind Hair Skins Prison Flight My Thoughts Frantic

Book:Flowers in the Attic

Source: Flowers in the Attic

“As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.”

Soul Stories Body Would Be Written Wind Becoming Paper Pages Skins Hot Surface Dry Fables Crawling Papyrus

Author:Salman Rushdie

“He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.”

Sun Tears Wind Morality Skins Holes Naked Prophet Garments

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.”

Hands Grace Wind Shadow Skins Good Life Hazel Grace Gus

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.”

Ifs Men Want Needs Water Missing Wind Kissing Skins Increase Blow Absence Great Men Candle I Want You Diminish Eloquent Great Ones Bonfire

Book:On Folly Beach

Source: On Folly Beach

“What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window When I can see what I couldn’t see before, through the glass of my most battered dream, I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did, it scattered a thousand seeds. So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don’t try to put me back in just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better”

Knows Trying Mind I Can Moments Dream Pain Together Next Loses Hurt Grief Wind Listening Thousand Window Skins Glasses Seeds Wounds Get Better Echoes Next Time Battered Dandelions

Author:Andrea Gibson

“And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day - the snow melted to grass, the trees were reinhabitated with bird, leaf, and blossoms like a continent of butterflies breathing on the wind. And peering through, color sky from iron to blue. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in”

Source: Dandelion Wine

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