Skins Effy Quotes

You can take anything if you want it enough.

I feel my skin growing warm. But it isn’t the fact that Gussy told Effie about Eva, about everything that happened, but rather that someone would see beauty in the story. The idea that someone could hear about what happened all those years ago and not be disgusted, horrified, by all the tragedies that followed, that someone could find a sliver of the goodness, the beauty, I cling to is almost more than I can handle.

But most of all, I hate that you’ve wriggled beneath my skin and that I can’t get you out of my fucking head. I hate that I don’t hate you anymore. It would be so much easier if I did.

Go to bed, Effie.” She shook her head. “No, I want to keep talking to you.” “I don’t want to talk to you. Get out of my sight.” “Why?” “I am barely holding on. Get out of my sight before I do something we both regret.” She lifted her chin. “You don’t scare me.” I pushed off the chair. Walked toward her. She never wavered. She met my gaze, steady and sure. “You’re mad at yourself, not me,” she said. “Pretty sure it’s you irritating me.” “What have I done that is so irritating?” I leaned close, laying it on the line. “I can’t get your voice out of my head, Effie. I can’t stay away from you. You are all I think about. Worry over. Your opinion matters to me. I don’t usually give a fuck what anyone thinks, but your thoughts somehow have become a priority. You have gotten under my skin, and I’ll be damned if I know how to get you out.

Discomfort roiled under my skin, and it only calmed in contact with her.