“Because the only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.”
“Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.-An-mei”
“Does it matter that people and thingsHave words,Have names?If not,Why read any book?A litany of useless lettersDetached from bone, muscle.Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,PersonReal?”
“Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine.”
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
“Beauty is only skin-deep, and ugly goes straight to the bone.”