“Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.”
“We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.”
“Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?”
“It's the grit that makes the pearl.”
“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.”
“Sometimes the best relationships are formed by the most unlikely pair.”