Quotes of: Skin-color Keyword

Naw, I say. Mr ____, can tell you, I don't like it at all. What is it to like? He git up on you, heist your nightgown round your waist, plunge in. Most times I pretend I ain't there. He never know the difference. Never ast me how I feel, nothing. Jus...

The Color Purple

He had set up a telescope on a corner of the roof, and we went up to take a look. This is time travel, he said, narrowing an eye to set the lens. Because the light is old. We're seeing back in time. No, we said, wrinkling our noses. We are seeing rig...

The Color Master: Stories

I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. R...

All the Light We Cannot See

Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it's been a martyr for the American dream, it's been neutralized, co-opted by our culture to suggest a tinge of discomfort that lasts the time it takes for this and then for that t...

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

Celie: [lunging towards Albert with a knife] I curse you. Until you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble! Sofia: Don't do it Mrs. Celie. Don't trade places with what I been through. Shug: Come on, Celie, let's go to the car. Sof...

The Color Purple

Valentine: Excuse me... the door was open. I'm sorry, I think I ran over your dog. Rita. A German Shepherd. The Judge: [Displaying little interest] It's possible. She disappeared yesterday. Valentine: She's in my car. Alive. I don't know what to do. ...

Three Colors: Red

The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar nihilization, that is, it loses its colors, so that grayness covers not only things of this earth and of space, but also the very flow of time,...

Love

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

A Civil Campaign

I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.

Cold Skin

My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.

Cold Skin

Pretty girls kissed me on victory day, their lips soft red petals brushing my face.

Cold Skin

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

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

Cold Skin

The instant Isabella Cortez left the safety of the FBI building, goose bumps skittered across her skin and her senses went on high alert.

Disarming Detective

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

Dead in the Family

Sleeping Atlantis Silent cool waters dancing upon her skin ~ silent cool water ushering dreams within...

Enigmatic Evolution

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

The Girl on the Train

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

Handle with Care

Are ye always standing like a stallion?" His low chuckle brought another wave of gooseflesh across her skin. "Only when Ye're near.

Beauty and the Barbarian

Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water.

The Brothers Karamazov

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

The Barbarian Nurseries