Beneath the Skin Quotes

“If only closed minds came with closed mouths.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“There’s a link between creativity and mental illness,” Lucas continues. “Creative people feel more, think more. They’re more sensitive. Most people try to skim over the painful stuff, artists dwell on it. Dad always says Mom thinks too much. Too much brewing spoils the pot. Or something like that.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“You make it sound so terrible. There’s nothing wrong with crying. Tears are healing. They help you drain out the sorrow and anguish, so you can start filling yourself with more positive emotions, when you’re ready.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“God gives us a choice. Every single one of us. We make choices for good or choices for evil. Choices for self-protection and survival or choices for something bigger, better, greater than ourselves. Even when it doesn’t feel like a choice, it still is.
I have a choice".”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“You can’t give any part of yourself to anyone. They’ll just use it to break you.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath The Skin

“My heart tightens. I need to show him parts of myself he might not want to see. I don’t know much about relationships, but I know this: I need to share myself with him, the way he’s shared himself with me. I need him to see into me the way I see into him. I lick my lips, inhale a shaky breath. “You okay?” Lucas puts his arm around my shoulders. I sink into him, smell the clean, woodsy scent of his sweatshirt.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath The Skin

“•        National Child Abuse Hotline: They can provide local referrals for services. A centralized call center provides the caller with the option of talking to a counselor. They are also connected to a language line that can provide service in over 140 languages. Hotline: 800.4.A.CHILD (422.2253)”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“It’s so ordinary, I think, to break and be broken. It’s so much more extraordinary to put in the hard, agonizing work of rebuilding yourself, piece by piece,”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“Anything worthwhile is hard as hell. Sometimes the most difficult things are the most important, and the most rewarding.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“The caterpillar who inches along the ground, plagued by shadows and predators, who can’t even see the sky—does she still imagine being in it? Does she dream of flying, of sunlight flashing off iridescent wings? Does she feel that primal urge within her cells, a flickering deep within her DNA, like a whisper—that she wasn’t made for this? That there’s more, so much more—but she’ll have to destroy herself to reach it. It will be her destruction or her salvation. She doesn’t know which. She spins her own coffin anyway.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“But I think of the beauty that can come from a breaking, a shattering of a thing that was whole, then broken, then reshaped into something else entirely.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“There’s nothing wrong with crying. Tears are healing. They help you drain out the sorrow and anguish, so you can start filling yourself with more positive emotions, when you’re ready.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“There’s a link between creativity and mental illness,” Lucas continues. “Creative people feel more, think more. They’re more sensitive. Most people try to skim over the painful stuff; artists dwell on it.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“The researchers discovered the butterflies retain memories from their experiences as a caterpillar, in spite of almost complete cellular disintegration during the metamorphosis.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“There are still groups of organized cells in all that goo. They contain everything the butterfly needs to develop the wings, antennae, legs, eyes, and anything else she needs to survive. She basically annihilates herself and then rebuilds herself into something completely new.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“No.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“You are good. Just like this. Whatever you want to be is just fine. It doesn’t matter if you like boys or pink sparkles or wear purple polka dotted skirts to school every day. Okay? No one has a right to treat you like crap.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“Honestly? I don’t know. If He does exist, is He even the kind of God I would want to believe in? Why is there so much war, pain, and death? Wouldn’t a God of love stop all that? Where’s the bolt of lightning to strike down terrible people doing terrible things?”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“It’s colder than a witch’s tit in a brass bra out here.” He”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“I may have flipped off the P.E. teacher for forcing me to wear my too-short and too-tight uniform. I may have also suggested Coach Taylor was a pervert for insisting on required activewear for adolescent minors that showcased the female form. While”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“Have you decided on your major?” “I want to be a rodeo clown.” He just looks at me. “How about underwater basket weaving? Is that a thing?”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“Okay, fine. Be all sarcastic if you want to, but that's what you're doing. You're pushing away everybody who cares about you.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin