Hymn-to-goodness-and-beauty Quote by Helene Cardona

“I become ocean, mercury, silver shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated.”

— Helene Cardona

“Candi di Penghujung Ruh (Jenawi — Khajuraho) Tubuhku: batu yang merindu, belerang hitam tanpa tabuhan. Jenawi menggerus diriku kersani yang tak beriba, mengiris daging…

— Titon Rahmawan

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however…

— Henry David Thoreau

Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.

— Jane Yolen

“A second skin. Perhaps made less scandalous by the exquisite detailing, the extra padding, the pockets, the bits of armored decoration—but there was not…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Lying can be a second skin, but when you are called out on that lie, it can become all too easy for that skin…

— Jillian Cantor

“She clutched him, her fingers digging in like she needed to gather parts of him to act as her own second skin for the…

— Melina Marchetta

“Her shame, she was certain, marked her in ways apparent to anyone who looked closely. It had grown to her like a second skin”

— Sondra Allan Carr

“Garments are our second skin, and the truer of the two for being the one we choose.”

— A.E. Marling

“What happens when you're both the Beauty and the Beast?" ~ Second Skin tagline”

— Judith Graves

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one,…

— Jose Saramago

I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character…

— Peter Mayhew