cocoon quotes

In rural England, people live wrapped tight in a cocoon; only their eyes move to make sure that nobody gets more than themselves.

-J(ames) L(loyd) Carr
  How Steeple Sinderby  Wanderers Won the FA Cup, pt.2.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

-James Russell Lowell
  'On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners', in the Atlantic Monthly,  Jan.