Around Quote by Kenneth Jay Lane

“She was a clay pot, and she’d been broken in pieces. There used to be something inside her, and now that it had spilled…

— Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

“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

“in better company, they found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of these…

— Victor Hugo

“BREAVMAN KNOWS a girl named Shell whose ears were pierced so she could wear the long filigree earrings. The punctures festered and now she…

— Leonard Cohen

“Mort was getting interested in the rock. It had curly shells in it, relics of the early days of the world when the Creator…

— Terry Pratchett

“The cave was cool and silent- thoroughly carpeted- with the most luxuriant mantle of mosses Alma Whittaker had ever seen. The cave was not…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“...she was bound by whalebone, pierced with ivory, pinned by the hair with tortoiseshell.”

— Sarah Perry

Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning.…

— George MacDonald

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

— Ikechukwu Joseph

“A warm flow of pain was gradually replacing the ice and wood of the anaesthetic in his thawing, still half-dead, abominably martyred mouth. After…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships…pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“The magnificent diamond locket which hung about Tarzan's neck, had been a source of much wonderment to Jane. She pointed to it now, and…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs