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

“Yellow light and cautious on the brake; light outside the window like the slow rumor of dawn. Her head against the cold plane of the glass as if on the breast of Love itself, throat corseted by pain and wanting more than anything else the last boon, the simple ability to cry.”
― Kathe Koja, Skin

“You have to do something with ideas”
― Kathe Koja, Skin

“The opposite of love is indifference, not hate, but how could they know that either?”
― 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