Skin Quotes

“To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.”
― Kathe Koja, Skin

“and wasn’t rust growth, of a kind? the growth of decay? If you don’t grow, you die;”
― Kathe Koja, Skin

“smile again, something older, colder than reptilian, cold as the oldest brain of all speaking, short wordless bursts, the back of the back of the skull: “Let’s see,” she said, “who can keep the most secrets. And be the most surprised in the end.”
― Kathe Koja, Skin

“In the end we have no bodies, in the end we have, we are, nothing at all.”
― Kathe Koja, Skin

“I don't bleed, hedgehog; I burn.”
― Kathe Koja, Skin

“Did you want it to be easy?”
“No. I just want it to work.”
― Kathe Koja, Skin

“leading her away from the worktable to sit on the unmade couchbed, lumpy pillows, blankets humped sad and cold.”
― Kathe Koja, Skin

“Tess felt for a moment that she might cry, coughed instead, a watery cough worse than a sob”
― Kathe Koja, Skin