Sewers Like Quote by Maureen Seaton

“It seems only yesterday that I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine.…

— Billy Collins

“Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives?”

— Ramona Ausubel

“This will be a new amputation. You've been a part of my flesh, underneath all my skin. Your removal will bleed and leave me…

— Julie Berry

“He had heard that people who had the toes chopped off one foot could not stand up, but fell over constantly until they learned…

— Ken Follett

“My nightly blood lust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine. But…

— Billy Collins

“At the grave's precipice, our feet scuff dirt, and chunks of the firmament fall away.”

— Ann Voskamp

“The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“We will walk to God barefoot: our feet lacerated, our limbs wounded.”

— Saadi Youssef

“I have been troubled a lot, misunderstood more often, lost all near and dear ones, blamed for things I have not done, insulted, discarded……

— Ila Garg

“I'm so lonely in the world I want to peel all of my flesh off and walk, just bone and gristle, straight into the…

— Kathleen Glasgow

“I felt limp and betrayed, like the skin shed by a terrible animal. It was a relief to be free of the animal, but…

— Sylvia Plath