Absolutely Quote by Gene Ween

I've always been so interested in both the visual beauty of mollusks and the tactile feel of them. As a kid, I collected them…

— Anthony Doerr

“The voice on the other end said, “Lord Mollusk, we’ve lost China.” “Define lost.” “It’s not there anymore, sir.” “Well, that’s no good, is…

— A. Lee Martinez

The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren’t trying to kill you.

— Dave Barry

“Many love stories are like the shells of hermit crabs, though others are more like chambered nautiluses, whose architecture grows with the inhabitant and…

— Rebecca Solnit

“When I heard about the path, I had to come down and see it for myself. I had heard about it before but didn’t…

— Glenda C. Manus

“Which came first, the mollusc or the shell?”

— Helen Scales

“Building a museum case and filling it with types of mussels is one way of knowing mussels; but on the shore, a mussel leads…

— Rebecca Solnit

[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes…

— Kate Orff

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

— Plato

“Do you appreciate that an oyster has, among its other organs, a heart?”

— Padgett Powell

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth…

— Kate Atkinson

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

— Anonymous