“Rose gold is decadent. It is gold for people who already have enough gold gold.”
None of these quotes belong to the author – they are borrowed from things he watched, saw and read. They are among the phrases he Siri’d into text messages, typed into Twitter, shared on Facebook and lost in notebooks. Specific attribution is intentionally omitted – for the sport of search
“Sparkle like a gem with a golden voice.”
“I want to take off my silver earrings… rid of all the garbage.”
“Lindsay hadn’t heard the world jewelry in a long time.”
“I’ve never seen a diamond in the flesh, I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies.”
“Jewelry making is not a manly subject,
where guns are.”
“Poets and travelers dreamed of splendid castles made of marble and gemstones. They invented them... described them as they ought to have been in order to be beautiful.”
“All your silver rings, and all your silken things...that song you sing is keeping you from breaking.”
“I’m just trying to change the color on your mood ring.”
“My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me... My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury, or wear as jewelry. Whichever you prefer.”
“And the rings “fall out like a silver snowfall into the blinding light.”
“I want a ring so big that it gives me back problems.”
“She’s a dancing zookeeper’s daughter who makes jewelry.”
“Disfigured by low booths, built adjoining to the walls of the church, possessed by jewellers.”
“He was found with the jewelry and headdress he once wore.”
“I believe that jewelry needs balls.”
“You could have it all: the cars, the clothes, the jewels, the sex, the house. Baby, you could be a star.”
“Hildegard talks of a Lucifer (before the fall) adorned with gems that sparkled like a starry sky, so that the countless glittering beams that shone out from the splendour of all his ornaments flooded the world with light (Liber divinorum operum.)”
“Only the jeweler knows the nature of the lost jewel.”
“The fighters initially agreed and laid out a blanket, where Ms. Saleh placed her heart-shaped pendant and her gold rings, while the men left crumpled bills.”
“Heart shaped jewelry is not something women buy for themselves.” “But you like heart-shaped jewelry right?” “No. Except for the pendant that you got me.”
“Why would anyone want to put a metal ring through the end of their prick?” “What are you looking at me for?”
“100 jewels between the teeth.”
“This is my grandmother’s buttock bullet ring.”
“You could always model ladies jewelry.”
“I can’t keep spinning gold out of your ass.”
“You like diamond rings, I can provide.”
“To distill so specific a form, from all that chaos. It’s like turning air into gold. A miracle.”
“She used to have to work at her dad’s jewelry factory if she was bad.”
“I’ve got the magic in me, everytime I touch that track it turns into gold.”
“Sparkle like a gem with a golden voice.”
“All the gold and the guns and the girls couldn’t get you off...”
“Like, the opposite of gold.”
“My feet are tired of wearing your golden crown around town!”
“And the scars that mark my body, they are silver and gold.”
“It’s just an illusion, here on earth, that one moment follows another one — like beads on a string.”
“The ring yearns to return to the hand of its master.”
“I hope to inspire children to be obsessed over jewelry.”
“Burning a hole in my pocket is this ring.”
“Girl, we go together like rubber on chrome… Diamonds on gold.”
“Charlotte’s amethyst bracelet; fashioned out of the intertwining hair of her two sisters.”
“My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me... My heart is yours to fill or burst To break or bury Or wear as jewelry Whichever you prefer”
“You’re going to want to look through the jewelry and nails tray.
There is some beautiful jewelry, but be careful, there’s also nails.”
“The photograph was just his hands with a bracelet of flowers around it.”
“Did that bird just say my name?” “Yeah it did, right before it crapped gold.”
“Uh, she’s going to make me buy some of her homemade jewelry. Birds always attack me when I wear it.”
“Healer, gun enthusiast, jewelry designer; there is nothing this man can’t do.”
“I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven. When I awoke I spent that on a necklace…”
“Is that falcon wearing a necklace?”
“How is it that the prize for winning the most macho game in the most macho sport in history is a piece of jewelry?”
“You can fit me inside the necklace you got when you were sixteen. Next to your heartbeat where I should be.”
“You don’t win silver, you lose gold.”
“Declaring the contents to be a necklace”
“They gave the two young women silver dog tags.”
“I’ve seen this diamond cut through harder men”
“It is a fact that the diamonds were there, for they have been discovered and sold; and that they were carried down there during the drift period, from some northern locality.”
“She’s showing me how to make jewelry, which earns her extra cash.”
“Can I listen to your necklace?”
“The old silver jewelry smell of oncoming rain.”
“Yellow was considered the color of cowardice and was associated with pariahs and social outcasts, the insane, Muslims and Jews; nevertheless it was also celebrated as the color of gold, seen as the brightest and most precious of metals.” “Doctors and naive love, silver spoons over fire. You tell a lazy lie and I tell them you’re a liar.”
“That’s why they sell a wine glass holder necklace.”
“You’re lucky we aren’t back in oldentimes, I would make a necklace out of your teeth.”
“Plant my lips where your necklaces close.”
“The species will generally be preserved in children. But as all are of the same original stock, a golden parent will sometimes have a silver son, or a silver parent a golden son.”
“We should feed our jewelry to the sea. For diamonds do appear to be just like broken glass to me.”
“Do you guys know where I could get one of those gold necklaces with a ‘t’ on it?”
“You can tell I got cake from the diamonds in my teeth.”
“A necklace of follicles with sabertooth monocles”
“It’s a racket; I think they print those charts blurry and then tell you you need glasses.”
“I’m not going to apologize. It wasn’t even a real tiara.”
“That is a really great example of a horrible idea...my time is like a toddler in a tiara, I need really great ideas.”
“Wear me like a locket around your throat, I’ll weigh you down, I’ll watch you choke.”
“The King went and misplaced his crown, but it’ll come around.”
“He is the brooch and gem of all the nation.”
“I’m the king of this pity party with my jewel encrusted crown.”
“The sons of major kings, when being fostered, should have “brooches of gold having crystal inserted in them,” while the sons of minor kings need wear only silver brooches.”
“The wings don’t make you fly and the crown don’t make you king...”
“Sometimes he wore a tiepin, or a brooch, or something consisting of two horizontal bars with a platinum figure bent complexly over both.”
“From her clothes he ripped the golden brooches...”
“...Through which the bones shone like the points on a crown of thorns, or the beads of a rosary...”
“A crown of wet cigars.”
“That crown I got from being prom king is so tacky — I hardly even wear it anymore.”
“Brooms be on the street now sweeping up the broken crowns.”
“If you take away her crown she’s just an old lady.”
“One delights in getting honors and crowns through storm-footed horses, Another in passing life in rooms rich in gold, Another still, safe traveling enjoys, in a swift ship, on a wave of the sea.”
“I know you love it when the hairpins start to drop.”
“You can wear the crown but you’re no princess.”
“Their hands and faces were
all badged with blood.”
“And they alone of all the citizens may not touch or handle silver or gold, or be under the same roof as them, or wear them, or drink from them.”
“What’s the difference between gold and golden?”
“Carry this picture for luck,
Kept in a locket,
Tucked in your collar,
Close to your chest.”
“They’re building an atomic bomb.” “You got that from a badge?”