“T’ain’t no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
“Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
-An-mei”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
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