Quote by Barbara Elsborg

“He constructed a shell to hide his aloneness, and it hardened on his back. I know of no sadder story.”

— Peter Guralnick

“Like a porcelain facade, her outer shell was breaking away.”

— L.A. Kuehlke

“Zam watched as the creature began to fade, until it disappeared altogether and all that remained was his own reflection in the mirror. He…

— Frank Lambert

“He sat looking at it with his eyes protruding in the manner popularized by snails, looking like something stuffed by a taxidermist who had…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.”

— Douglas Adams

“Zaphod Beeblebrox crawled bravely along a tunnel, like the hell of a guy he was. He was very confused, but he continued crawling doggedly…

— Douglas Adams

“There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned…

— Douglas Adams

“Eragon waited several minutes to be sure it was gone before he returned to clearing the rubble. "Maybe i should just call myself Snail…

— Christopher Paolini

“[...]And his head is on fire with new things[...]he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of a new…

— Terry Pratchett

“And it took cutting back the prettiest parts of myself to finally realize that this shell does not define me. For I am so…

— Becca Lee

“It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an…

— Ayn Rand

“And therefore think him as a serpents egg, which, hatched, would as its kind grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell”

— William Shakespeare