“If you look closely you'll find all my lovers inscribed on my skin.”

— Jill Ciment

Source: The Tattoo Artist

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Jill Ciment 1

Canadian writer 1955

Duane Gish (1921–2013) American biochemist

Gish has repeatedly been challenged to support this claim, but has failed to do so: ** Source http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/cre-error.html

“I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my mutant-birdkid-freak package.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

“I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys (1995)

“Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

“Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.”

Francesca Lia Block book Wasteland

Source: Wasteland

“What you most want,
what you travel around wishing to find,
lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,
and you'll be that.”

Attar of Nishapur (1145–1230) Persian Sufi poet

"Looking For Your Own Face" as translated by Coleman Barks in The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia
Context: Don't be dead or asleep or awake.
Don't be anything.
What you most want,
what you travel around wishing to find,
lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,
and you'll be that.

“Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.”

Basil King (1859–1928) Canadian writer

Source: The Conquest of Fear (1921), Chapter I : Fear And The Life-Principle, § XI, p. 29; sometimes paraphrased: "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid."