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1 " As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. "
― Ernest Hemingway , A Moveable Feast
2 " Do you know how a pearl comes to be?" " Oysters make them, from a bit of sand." " Aiyah. From a bit of sand." He rolled the pearl between his fingers. " All pearls begin as something unpleasant that the oysters cannot expel from themselves, even though they may want to. So they embrace these things that will not leave them, shaping them and smoothing away the sharp edges, until over time, they make of these unwanted things great treasures. "
