Quote by Helen Scales

“It was the call for animals that have two horns that brought out the snail”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

“I've spent years studying all sorts of creatures. Do you know what I've noticed? The ones that build themselves the toughest, strongest shells for…

— Tessa Dare

“But didn't everyone have a shell? Hard, external armor protecting the soft, vulnerable creature beneath? Perhaps, she thought, people were more like ammonites than…

— Tessa Dare

“It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.”

— Alex Flinn

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

— Ken Thompson

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard…

— Ian Gardner

“the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.”

— Jodi Picoult

“I liked the sound of the word 'snail' every time I said it; the word was as small and simple as the creature itself.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so great about…

— Anne Ursu

“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

“[The shells] do not have the meaning they once did, but, as Swann said in Remembrance of Things Past, "even when one is no…

— Anne Fadiman

“To be a pearl maker, your oyster needs a good strong shell to protect you from a hundred million irritants in your environment. Your…

— Annie Kagan