“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.”
— Ted Dekker, book Skin
Source: Skin
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