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“Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched too much,…

— Victoria Finlay

You know there is something a little bit special about an Ashes.

— Glenn McGrath

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in…

— Ovid

“[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

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

— Jodi Picoult

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

— Lucretius

“These shells are just like the people of the world, Okachan,' Manjiro said, speaking not just to his mother, but to everyone. 'They come…

— Margi Preus

I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.

— Lauren DeStefano

“The stranded oysters are popping open in the warmth. Tucked in like narcoleptic babies in the pluff mud, they snooze their existence away. Exuding…

— Bibiana Krall

So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?

— Billy Connolly

Love leaves ashes.

— Krishty

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.

— Rumi