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Letter from Mr. B:
Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?
Itchy, itchy, itchy, yo.
Scratchy, scratchy, scratchy, yo.
Itchy, itchy, itchy, yo.
Poison summac daddy. Got an itch real baddy.
We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.
One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.
Some things just scrape my spine!
Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.
My knees are ticklish.
You know what? You know what? You know what?' I was waving my finger under her nose. 'You scratched the Son of God. That's your ass, that's what.
This Kitten Has Claws
SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO NIBBLE ON
THE INSIDES OF THEIR OWN CHEEKS.
IV'E SEEN AN OTHERWISE LOVELY GIRL
CONTORT HER FACE TO REACH A FAVORITE SPOT.
THERE ARE BIT LINES WHERE REPEATED NIPS
HAVE BUILT RIDGES OF SCAR TISSUE.
There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
Scratching my way through minutes that feel like years, and years that have run by me like sand, like waste. But
Tis but a scratch!"
"A scratch? Your arm's off!"
"No it isn't."
"Then what's that?"
"Oh come on, pansy!
...this rubbed like a small pebble in a boot. At first it seems like nothing but a nuisance, but eventually it hobbles you.
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Dorian's scar itched. It did that when he was agitated, or angry, or experiencing anything one might call emotion. Or when rain was on the horizon, but he didn't think that was entirely relevant to why it was itching now.
Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin,
I Love You
and your perfect ask
'Would you scratch my back?' is enough
to stretch out hands because folk who love
happily scratch backs where a person can't reach
I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.
My hand-stitched wings itch
to take flight
to test the winds of change
that inevitably blow
at the end
of a cycle.
Today Baba got a blister when he put his palm down on the hood of our rental car! Mother had to put toothpaste on it.
I scraped my heel against this black claw: I wanted to peel off some of the bark. For no reason at all, out of defiance, to make the bare pink appear absurd on the tanned leather: to play with the absurdity of the world. But, when I drew my heel back, I saw that the bark was still black.
I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.
I examined my palm; the skin was unbroken and smooth, showing no sign of the burn. It glistened with saliva. I really wanted to wipe it clean against my jeans, but that seemed rude. Of course, he'd just licked me, so maybe his idea of rude was different than mine.
If things are going slow, I'm itchy.
When hunting a Maltese Falcon, catch it, but don't scratch it!
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.
It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
They tell me that I rub the fur the wrong way. I don't; let the cat turn around.
There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen
... reunions, she felt, were not much more than a scratching at the vague itch of memory. And like scratching, they rarely helped - indeed, scratching often made matters worse, as any dermatologist would tell you.
You're upset. Who upset you? Tell me, and I'll bite him."
"No biting."
"Little nibbles?"
"No."
"Ferocious licks?"
"Ew.
Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.
Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?
For every bandaged wound
I'll scrape another open
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.
That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
If you gotta scratch the itch, scratch it. Or, if you want to do away with the day job, scratch, itch or no!
I'll kiss your feet if you'd scratch my nose.
Harry ran his thumb over the thin skin
I get a little itchy if I don't have some control.
Now before we get into anything, ladies, no scratching, no spitting and no tattling to mummy.
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.
This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.
I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
Something - exactly like a finger and thumb it felt - nipped my nose.
The way cats lose bits of fur when you pet them thoroughly.
Trent looked me up and down. "Is that all you're going to do?"
My pulse quickened, and I gazed at the front of the basilica where the scratching was coming from. "I might have a snack later if nothing comes through those doors.
He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.
systematically looking at each of the fly-covered tattoos on one of the walls.
Occasionally I'll be sitting somewhere and I'll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I'll look down at my hand and I'll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.
Never put a foot down in the middle of a foot rub.
Woolsey bites on occasion
Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers probing parts you never though you could probably probe - Gray
I must to the barber's, mounsieur; for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me I must scratch.
Everything I've ever let go of had claw marks on it.
Excuse me for just a sec, I've got eczema around my nubbins.
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.
When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.
O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.
That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.
What do you call a slap that's waiting an inch away from your cheek refusing to back away? A caress
Don't ever call me "kitten paws" again and don't tell me I need acting lessons or the next thing you'll be eating between two slices of bread will be a certain supersensitive part of your anatomy.
What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I'd better figure out what I rubbing up against.
Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.
Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.
You live most intensely in human contact- and that's what we shrink from, poor timid creatures, from giving our souls to somebody to touch; for they, bungling fools, will generally paw it with dirty hands
It's like an itch, isn't it? You can feel it in your throat. You want to scream for me.
He's helped me a lot over the years."
"I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours."
"I have skin allergies. I'm itchy.
When it comes to scrapes, I'm what you might call a talented amateur. But I've gotten a good look at that women in and out of that fancy mechanical shell she wears. She's a pro. We're not playing the same sport.
If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.
When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.
way it sounded, scraping and scuffling
Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.
The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.
the vet and the wound
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails
I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it's because you've ripped a hole in your skin.
A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.
If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're actually quite clean creatures.
I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life.
I felt on my back gentle pats like fragile wings just touching me, touching me: my grandchildren's hands.
It wasn't an itch. It was a sickness. It was poison blazing through him, thinking of her all the time, watching her, touching her, wanting and wanting and wanting until his mind went black.
Who was the first man that scratched his head? For to my thinking it must have been our father Adam.
A soft hushing sound, like fingernails scratching down an endless sheet of paper.
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
Irritation. The right lower limb was visible through a fresh cut in the plastic.
Have you ever had an itch so awful that you must scratch it or die? And yet you can't?"
His lips twitched. "Yes. Usually in one's army boot, while standing in knee-deep water in a trench. While people are shooting. That absolutely guarantees an unreachable itch.
If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.
When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it.
If your knees ain't dirty...you ain't doin' it right!