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We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Stardust”, p.12, Harper Collins

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

John Ruskin (188?). “Works: "A joy forever." The art of England. "Our fathers have told us." The laws of Fesole. The pleasures of England. Fiction fair and foul. Notes on the construction of sheepfolds. Inaugural address ... Cambridge School of Art, October 29th, 1858. The storm cloud of the nineteenth century. The opening of the Crystal Palace”

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

"Gun Advocate Sen. Joe Manchin Calls For Gun Law Changes After Newtown". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 18, 2012.