#skin

So," he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, "I've been thinking." "Yeah?" He nodded. "You really need to go out with me." I blinked. "I'm sorry?" "You know. You, me. A restaurant or movie. Together." He glanced over, shifting gears. "Maybe it's a new concept for you? If so, I'll be happy to walk you through it." "You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I though saying that might scare you off. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#love #sarah-dessen #what-happened-to-goodbye #love

I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love: my fragile clockwork heart would never survive. But when you gave me a dose of love so powerful - far beyond my wildest dreams - that I felt able to confront anything for you, I decided to put my life in your hands. ↗

— Mathias Malzieu

#broken-hearted-quotes #one-sidedness #risking-it-all #dreams

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civil-rights-movement #ethnology #identity-politics #martin-luther-king-jr #perjury

For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#humor #skinny #food

Het vel van de sardines is zo mooi, het is mooier dan het vel van de mens, maar hij moet toegeven dat hij nog nooit heeft gezien hoe menselijk vel eruitziet als je het bakt in een pan. ↗

— Arnon Grunberg

#skin #men

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#goodness #hear #humans #people #please

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#head #may #night #over #pulled

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. ↗

— Mark Twain

#course #demands #finest #made #more

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#go #help #help people #i #into

I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#began #consistent #everything #i #just