Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, â€œComing out!â€ She eased her head… — Nora Roberts
I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me,… — Bryce Courtenay
The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People… — Virginia Woolf
Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of… — Lisa Unger
...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked… — Robin McKinley
Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells... — William S. Burroughs
Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty. — Lionel Shriver
His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her… — Holly Black
No,â€ he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. â€œThey grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver.â€ Elena laughed at… — Nalini Singh
Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul… — Elizabeth Scott
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back… — C.S. Lewis
News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore,â€ Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place… — Rachel Caine
She saw through the shell of me into the center of me — Jonathan Safran Foer
Iâ€™ve always felt almost human. Iâ€™ve always known that thereâ€™s something about me thatâ€™s different than other dogs. Sure, Iâ€™m stuffed into a dogâ€™s body,… — Garth Stein
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:… — John Green
Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer,… — Virginia Woolf
What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on it. Often I've… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is… — Sylvia Plath

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