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1 " A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it. "
― Colin Cotterill , Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #7)
2 " I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely the same way, as Mrs. Mullet had taught me, that an eggshell clarifies the consommé or the coffee, which, of course, is a simple matter of chemistry. The albumin contained in the eggshell has the property of collecting and binding the rubbish that floats in the dark liquid, which can then be removed and discarded in a single reeking clot: a perfect description of the writing process. "
― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)
3 " Being in love is to be half-cooked inside an eggshell called love. "
4 " Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood. "
