
“.. this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.”
Source: Fingersmith
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“.. this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.”
Source: Fingersmith
“I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.”
To a neighbor (1856), as quoted in A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant https://books.google.com/books?id=0G1LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155&dq=%22may+not+cover+a+true+heart+as+well+as+a%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uZngVIKtGsicNqz1gYgB&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false (1868), by Albert Deane Richardson, Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, p. 155. According to some other sources, he had also used this phrase in a letter to Robert E. Lee (General of the Confederacy).
1850s
“It pains me to believe that you have never stepped out of the skin you live with.”
Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)
“If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.”
Source: The Titan's Curse
"The trouble with Islam" (16 March 2007)
2007