Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

the shell must break before the bird can fly. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years agoâ€”she thought it was freaking hilarious. She… — Kiersten White
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty… — Haruki Murakami
I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing… — Mary Balogh
When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me...… — James Patterson
Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love. — Rumi
Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with… — Lisi Harrison
To this day I donâ€™t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was… — David Wong
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover… — Brennan Manning
Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling… — Mark Z. Danielewski
Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out. — Thrity Umrigar
Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear. — Tom Robbins
... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me,… — Margaret Atwood
She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring… — T.H. White
She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. — Sarah Dessen
And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished. — Jennifer Egan
We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to… — Neil Gaiman
And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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