Including Quotes by Victoria Finlay

Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough,…

— Victoria Finlay

In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious…

— Victoria Finlay

“The Jewish historian Hannah Arendt, in her book about the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, observes that in many cases the Nazi camps…

— Victoria Finlay

“Ezekiel looked into amber and saw God, but the Teutonic Knights saw something less noble: gold.”

— Victoria Finlay

“Emily Kame Kngwarreye”

— Victoria Finlay

“…in Pliny’s time, it was believed that only the blood of a newly sacrificed kid, or lamb, could shatter a diamond. Pliny wondered—as many…

— Victoria Finlay

“Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched too much,…

— Victoria Finlay

Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.

— Victoria Finlay

“Sometimes the mind is cruel: it tells us we are worth no more than our possessions, and that without them we would be nothing.…

— Victoria Finlay

Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence,…

— Victoria Finlay

“The probable reason that nobody at Mikimoto wanted a writer to go to the pearl farms of Ago…was because something terrible was happening in…

— Victoria Finlay

I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can…

— Victoria Finlay