"The Shell Collector" Quotes
A collection of mesmerizing short stories exploring the complexity of human nature and our relationship with the natural world.
short stories | 219 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
What a world, that can make such a delicate, pretty thing from this hideous, black, scratchy, dead stuff.
The urgent voice of the world is not to be found in the roar of the crowd.
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always going on.
The shell must be a kind of unconscious prayer.
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear.
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters.
The heart's landscape is the rock of the earth.
If you can't find the book you're looking for, write it.
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves.
The sea rolls and rolls and rolls; it never stops, and the waves that come to us today have come from the other side of the world.
