Growing up Quote by Terry Pratchett

“He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood. But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was illusory. The…

— D.H. Lawrence

“He constructed a shell to hide his aloneness, and it hardened on his back. I know of no sadder story.”

— Peter Guralnick

“This man, who’d rushed in to hold together all the splintering pieces of my world and forced them back together before they were completely…

— A.L. Jackson

“...what happens when you return and find nothing but a hollowed shell, shingles and floor, walls and echoes and the light that lead you…

— Kellie Elmore

“...for now he was in one of those crises when the soul yields a blurred glimpse of all that it enfolds, like an ocean,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“See the TURTLE of enormous girth, On his shell he holds the earth. If you want to run and play, Come along the BEAM…

— Stephen King

“Now human blubber draped his efforts.”

— Ian McEwan

“It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an…

— Ayn Rand

“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the…

— Herman Melville

“Zak felt himself drawing inward like a snail, pulling back all his vulnerable parts, which was just about everything, and hiding inside his shell.…

— Barbara Elsborg

“Like a porcelain facade, her outer shell was breaking away.”

— L.A. Kuehlke

“Howard, instead of trying to explain the hermit's existence in terms of hearth fires and trappers' shacks, preferred the blank space the old man…

— Paul Hardinga