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“I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the sky catches up with my mood. The pattern is set. This is, no doubt, the end.”

Ifs Knows Feels Ends Shows Age Night Waiting Doubt Sky Ancient Size Patterns Tiny Mood No Doubt Every Night Shells Handful Levers Replay Decrepit Life Size

Author:Joe Dunthorne

“The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.”

Thinking Want Body Mercy Instruments Filled Shells Vengeance

Author:R.L. LaFevers

“He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up." "Shut up!" -Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game”

Games Likes Kingdoms Shells Shut Up Keepers

Author:Ridley Pearson

“There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. We cannot allow it to.”

“In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.”

Ifs Want Eye School Moving Values Girl Games Waiting Messages What You Want Chosen Cups Shells Confusing Peas Infuriating

Book:Beauty Queens

Source: Beauty Queens

“Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.”

“Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.”

Men Moments Spirit Growing Youth Shells Wondrous Apparitions

Book:Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Source: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

“Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.”

Today Sea Sorry Credit Coffee Cash Shells Purses Barista Sea Shell

Author:Taylor Swift

“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”

Men Inspirational Firsts Success Winning Leadership Personal Development Preparation Shells Second Chance Oysters Will To Win Winners And Winning

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of one, that it is not something that you just "get over." For the vast majority of eating-disordered people, it is something that will haunt you for the rest of your life. You may change your behavior, change your beliefs about yourself and your body, give up that particular way of coping in the world. You may learn, as I have, that you would rather be a human than a human's thin shell. You may get well. But you never forget.”

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms were firm as rock around me.”

Body Rocks Arms Your Body Firm Warmth Shells Blanket Like Something

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.”

Broken Bird Shells

Author:Jennifer Worth

“That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.”

People World Feels Children Remember Suffering Alive Worst Walking Ordinary Careful Monsters Naked Paradox Buried Shells Only Time Protective Armour Adaptive Walking Dead

Book:Letters of Ted Hughes

Source: Letters of Ted Hughes

“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”

Men Memories Shells

Book:The Time Keeper

Source: The Time Keeper

“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.”

Persons Self Left Sadness Habit Skills Despair Wake Up Useless Destructive Strongest Electric Shells Terrified Ptsd

Author:Peter Straub

“There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.”

World Firsts Feelings Running Water Childhood Cold Capable Sacred Fingers Deeper Reaching Touching Tides Shells Ankles Shoreline

Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.”

Kind Reason School I Realized Reactions Broke Shells

Author:Jim Carrey

“It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.”

May Littles Said Song Dies Sea Wave Beach Shells Labyrinth

Book:Comet in Moominland: Can Moomintroll save his beloved valley?

Source: Comet in Moominland: Can Moomintroll save his beloved valley?

“She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as you.”

“To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and again and often forever.”

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

“Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.”

Inspirational Sometimes Hardest Cracks Reach Out Shells Gentleness Insperational

Author:Richard Paul Evans

“We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.”

Ifs Believe Long Two Would Be Together Pleasure Half Sweet Miserable Shells Our Love Ponds Guarded Oysters Gladness Very Sweet Narcissus

Author:Sarah Waters

“Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.”

Self Lovers Shells Halfway Snail

Book:Steps

Source: Steps

“If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?”

Ifs Naked Shells Homeless Turtles

Author:George Carlin

“Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in its green and brown shell. "That's a very interesting pet." "And those are very interesting shorts." His gaze dropped. "What are they?" Leaning forward his eyes narrowed and I stiffened. "Pizza slices?" Heat swamped my cheeks. "They're ice cream cones." "Huh. I like them." Straightening, his gaze drifted up me slowly, leaving an unfamiliar wake of heat behind. "A lot.”

“We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest. His hands clamp around me, and he crushes me to his body as he slides his nose along the shell of my ear. "When I take you, you'll be mine," he says, a soft promise in my ear.”

Body Hands Certain Heard Mines Promise Ears Affair Noses Staring Crush Cracks Chests Organs Shells Slides

Author:Katy Evans

“I realized we'd pulled into a parking garage. We drove around two levels, pulled into a spot, then immediately pulled out again. Along with four other black Bentley SUVs. "What's going on?" I asked, as we headed back toward the exit with two Bentleys in front of us and two behind us. "Shell game," he said.”

Said Two Games Black Levels Behinds Four Fronts I Realized Spots Shells Exit Garage Parking Suvs Bentley

Book:Entwined with You

Source: Entwined with You

“...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.”

Men Young Young Man Plates Shells Crabs Scarves Jamaicans Dreadlocks

Author:Steve Martin

“You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more.”

Ifs Games Can Do Shells Screws Screw Ups

Author:Charlie Higson

“Wave to the nice tourists, Sparkle. I promise it won't cause pestilence and firestorms." Elena bit the inside of her cheek at Aodhan's glare-she'd never seen anyone crack his reserved shell. "Sparkle and Bluebell, nice." "Never," Aodhan said, hands stubbornly on the girder, "ever repeat that. Illium seems to have forgotten I promised to separate his tongue from his mouth should he utter it again in this immortal lifetime.”

Should Said Hands Seems Causes Bits Nice Promise Mouths Lifetime Forgotten Wave Tongue Repeats Immortal Cracks Cheeks Shells I Promise Tourists Reserved Sparkle Glare Pestilence Bluebells

Book:Archangel's Legion

Source: Archangel's Legion

“We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.”

Life Courage Loneliness Holy Sight Delight Temples Shells Exile

Author:Maya Angelou

“Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way.”

“It's the old shell game.”

Religion Games Shells

Author:Dan Rather

“Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown, hard part of them. They still define themselves by their school failures and successes.”

People Stills Hard School Learning Shells Success And Failure Snail

Author:Sandra Dodd

“So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.”

“You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.”

Thinking Knows Mind Firsts Believe Lasts Science Next I Believe Forget Principles Development Evolution Let Me Wings Fishes Superiors Shells Crow

Book:Tancred: Or, The New Crusade

Source: Tancred: Or, The New Crusade

“Ask of Her, the mighty Mother. Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring?- Growth in every thing - Flesh and fleece, fur and feather, Grass and green world all together, Star-eyed strawberry breasted Throstle above Her nested Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin Forms and warms the life within, And bird and blossom swell In sod or sheath or shell.”

World Together Form Mother Asks Stars Growth Spring Bird Blue Green Flesh Grass Eggs Shells Feathers Fur Strawberries Clusters Sod Fleece Green World

Book:Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source: Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.”

Littles Body Form Bird Grieving Life And Death Cracks Shells

Author:Swami Satchidananda

“For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.”

“Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.”

Should Age Middle Materials Periods Ego Ambition Aging Possession Birthday Shells Middle Ages Accumulation

Book:Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

“Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."”

Knows Men Mind Said Enough Past Felt Levels Known Youth Ocean Discovery Ass Pleasant Shells Alas Newton

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.”

Want Love Needs Whole Body Spirit Religious Break Kissing Whole Life Shells Pearls Darling Lilies

Author:Rumi

“Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.”

Source: Ponkapog Papers

“After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.”

Years Made Half Travel Hollywood Shells Funny Travel Tourists Tourism Years Of Life

Author:Edgar Bergen

“[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.”

Knows Cat Delight Suits Shells Kitten Tortoises

Author:William Cowper

“Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.”

Different Use Form Science Animal Numbers Existence Silence Shapes Mountain Europe Stones Species Vanity Vain Collections Midst Shells Sheer Fossils Naturalist

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.”

Heart Lying Waiting Pieces My Heart Mouths Shells Memorial Memorial Day

Book:Toward the Flame: A War Diary

Source: Toward the Flame: A War Diary

“O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.”

Helping Pain Form Lord Fields Tears Gun Soldier Pale Shells Bloody Wounded Patriot Thunder God Help God Help Us

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.”

Years Firsts Wells Littles Two Would Be Form Science Animal Results Known Knowledge Teach Teaching Thousand Hundred Dollars Species Curiosity Shops Dozen Shells Well Known

Author:Louis Agassiz

“Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.”

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