Opal QUOTES

1 " I bet," said Mulch, " that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn." Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer.Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything. "

2 " Streets paved with opal sadness,Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy,And jazz. "

3 " No free man needs a God; but was I free?
How fully I felt nature glued to me
And how my childish palate loved the taste
Half-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!

My picture book was at an early age
The painted parchment papering our cage:
Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;
Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenon
The iridule - when, beautiful and strange,
In a bright sky above a mountain range
One opal cloudlet in an oval form
Reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm
Which in a distant valley has been staged -
For we are most artistically caged. "

― Vladimir Nabokov

4 " There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I. "

― John Steinbeck

5 " Let me see,” Opal said.She quickly slurped up the rest of her lunch and thentook the collar. She examined it very closely. Sure enough,she could see bits of evergreen fur pinched along the buckle strap. As she looked closer, she noticed something else. Several pieces of black onyx were sewn into the back of the collar, and they started glowing.“Well look at that,” Jack said. “Somebody’s put a spider in this biscuit. "

6 " Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: " Soon all the humans will be dead," she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. " And then Opal will be loved." And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead. "

7 " Ol' man Simon, planted a diamond. Grew hisself a garden the likes of none. Sprouts all growin' comin' up glowin' Fruit of jewels all shinin' in the sun. Colors of the rainbow. See the sun and the rain grow sapphires and rubies on ivory vines, Grapes of jade, just ripenin' in the shade, just ready for the squeezin' into green jade wine. Pure gold corn there, Blowin' in the warm air. Ol' crow nibblin' on the amnythyst seeds. In between the diamonds, Ol' man Simon crawls about pullin' out platinum weeds. Pink pearl berries, all you can carry, put 'em in a bushel and haul 'em into town. Up in the tree there's opal nuts and gold pears- Hurry quick, grab a stick and shake some down. Take a silver tater, emerald tomater, fresh plump coral melons. Hangin' in reach. Ol' man Simon, diggin' in his diamonds, stops and rests and dreams about one... real... peach. "

― Shel Silverstein , Where the Sidewalk Ends

8 " My parents had told me that I would not really die, not the real me: that nobody really died, when they died; that my kitten and the opal miner had just taken new bodies and would be back again, soon enough. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Ocean at the End of the Lane

9 " The Persian rug served as their country. The brawnier toilet paper people opted to live in its jade green jungles while the more sensitive and reflective toilet paper people preferred hiding in its opal cream sky. They were so light. No one would ever be able to tell that they had lived there. "

10 " The Persian rug served as their country with people living injade green jungles and others living in an opal cream sky.They were so light. No one would ever be able to tell thatthey had lived there. "

11 " Luc blinked innocently. That little fuck. " I gave you a piece of opal and a Luxen to nom-nom on. "