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shells Quotes

Five of the best book quotes about shells
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“The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it.”
Virginia Woolf
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To the Lighthouse
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life
houses
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beaches
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“I could see that Winn-Dixie was having a good effect on the preacher. He was making him poke his head out of his shell.”
India Opal Buloni
Winn-Dixie
The Preacher
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“Your Majesty, please...I don’t like to complain. But down here below, we are feeling great pain. I know, up on top you are seeing great sights. But down at the bottom we, too, should have rights. We turtles can’t stand it. Our shells will all crack! Besides, we need food. We are starving!”
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“Oompa Loompas can’t get walnuts out of walnut shells in one piece. They always break them in two. Nobody except squirrels can get walnuts whole out of walnuts shells every time.”
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“Several walnuts grew in the park, though none were very close. She went to look at the shell- but looked with great astonishment. There was a baby in it.”

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