Sea shell Quote by Anaïs Nin Download Open image ““Around her hair there was a saffron aureole, and her skin was a sea shell...”” — Anaïs Nin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sea shell
“...she was bound by whalebone, pierced with ivory, pinned by the hair with tortoiseshell.” — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and moist eyes with… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Every part of her was still except her hair, which blew round her face in the damp night like Medusa's serpentine locks rearing to… — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
“It was as though she has found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In those days, she let her hair loose, down to her waist, and whenever I met old friends of hers, they would describe my… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“I would fall asleep with my face pressed into her fur, while her deep electrical purr vibrated softly against my cheek. They made me… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves… — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
“Poor little Roxxi, she felt as if she was a tiny fish that had suddenly been thrown into the large sea.” — Amy Benton Copy Share Image
“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every instant. For… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am the guardian of the sleeping fawn; the snow is dear to me; and the moon rising; and the silver sea. With my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Juliet: I will be thy chased rose and take thy name. My heart will continue drumming its love for you the same; And though… — Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Christ, it's embarrassing--I start thinking about this goddam poem I sent her when we first started goin' around together. 'Rose my color is. and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Dear La Virgen, [...] and she puts flowers and special sea shells in front of this little fat guy she calls Budda who I… — Alma Luz Villanueva Copy Share Image
“Just why it should have happened, or why it should have happened just when it did, he could not, of course, possibly have said;… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“It was slow at first, dead things slowly mouldering away. The flies in the corners, the dried flowers in their clay pots. The stuffed… — Kelsey Ipsen Copy Share Image
I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“A writer, who was a celebrity in Paris, had entered her shop one day. He was not looking for a hat. He asked if… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image