If you didn't feel it on your body long after he'd left, was it really worth laying for him? I wanted to feel that. - Megan Abbott You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. - Kareem Abdul Jabbar If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience... would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? - Aberjhani You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the way out. - Diana Abu Jaber The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's. - Goodman Ace Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul. - Diane Ackerman A person who had no one would be well advi...

blemish, n. The slight acne scars. The penny-sized, penny-shaped birthmark right above your knee. The dot below your shoulder that must have been from when you had chicken pox in third grade. The scratch on your neck- did I do that? This brief transcript of moments, written on the body, is so deeply satisfying to read. - David Levithan Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book. - Jeanette Winterson

The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that. - Debbie Allen every night, when he didn't want to be alone, or to age or die, with that set expression he assumed which she occasionally recognized on other men's faces, the only common expression of those madmen hiding under an appearance of wisdom until the madness seizes them and hurls them desperately toward a woman's body to bury in it, without desire, everything terrifying that solitude and night reveals to them. - Albert Camus Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body. - Amber Benson The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a wo...

Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain. - Jack Gilbert I'm not just a warm body. - Kalayna Price It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad. - Judith Rossner Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea. - Arundhati Roy

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop. - Gina Barreca Going to work around 8:00am at the body shop. After work it's either weight training or practicing afterwards. - Ben Jackson The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away. - Anita Roddick The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies. - Anita Roddick At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. - Anita Roddick The clangor of the body shop comes up softly. It's noise comforts him, tells him he is hidden and safe, that while he hides men are busy nailing the world down, and toward the disembodied sounds his heart makes ...

Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling. - Ben Aaronovitch My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. - Mark Twain If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. - M H Abrams I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I ...