Art form Quote by Tayari Jones

“Things keep coming around and around in this world, it’s all crammed violently together, two parts of the same skin.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“I bring my hand to my face and pull away tiny pieces of the jagged scab. My face reflects in the rounded airplane window,…

— A.S. King

“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“You could never know what transpired beneath another's skin.”

— Ward Just

“My nerves needed a break, not a reminder of how much trouble we were in. I prowled around, but it didn't help. I still…

— Karen Chance

“But if with time, when a maze of wrinkles claims my skin and the neighborhood strays purr at the sound of my footsteps; long…

— Oksana Marafioti

“Yet when we do manage to create ourselves anew, isn’t there always a suspicion that the new identity fits over the old like a…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“This skin that separates you and me.. is a nuisance.”

— KOUGA YUN

“Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

“It’s like a snake that sheds its skin. The outside look different when the scales change, but the inside always the same.”

— Jesmyn Ward

“My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never…

— Andrew Davidson

“Somehow I should have been able to say how strong and resilient you were, what a patient and abiding and bonding force, the softness…

— Wallace Stegner