Top 38 Laura Whitcomb Quotes
#1. I would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.
#2. As I watched that single thread of lightning billow through the water above me like the aurora borealis, I imagined the heavy cord of time stretching away from me in the water like the hard, thick rope on a great ship.
#3. Perhaps it wasn't that time had frozen but that it was now moving at the pace of infinity. A moment now becomes a century.
#4. I studied a crescent moon hung crooked in a plum purple sky and thought about what it would be like to truly be seen.
#5. I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.
#6. A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages
#7. Be a sparrow, I told myself. Be silent and fly away. No one will bother you if you disappear.
#8. As his flesh touched my spirit, the feeling of falling turned into a feeling of flying. I was soaring through time toward him.
#9. I felt my being flutter. each tousled head that came through the door i wanted to be his, but no and on, a dozen boys entered, yet not the one.
#10. Perhaps I couldn't tickle the inside of his ear, but I could reach the mysterious curves of his mind.
#11. Just walk up to your hell & give it a push. Run through it & i'll be waiting on the other side.
#12. He was watching me and when our eyes met, i had no fan to cover my face, no way to hid my feelings. i was desperate for him, and he could see it, all the way in me.
#13. He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag.
"My God," he said. "What happened?"
"I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library.
#14. It was all real and blazing with detail.
But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper.
#15. Time is a ribbon, a delicate organdy, so thin that you can see through it to the layer of time below and the layer above. Moments overlapping, lying on top of each other.
#16. Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.
#17. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like - Here Mr. Brown paused again. Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten.
#18. Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.
#19. Books are boring," James said as he wrote.
"They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.
#20. Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
#21. Just walk up to your hell & give it a push. Run through it & i'll be waiting on the other side.
#22. It seemed as if humans had lost the ability to make their own fun. The more they were gifted with inventions, the less they needed one another. They didn't sing or play the fiddle at the hearth; they turned on the stereo. They didn't tell stories on the porch; they watched television.
#23. Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.
#24. Beyond this Door, Heaven waits.
#25. That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.
#26. The material was wrinkled, yet even in the low light it remembered the shape of two bodies.
#27. You deserve to be happy. What can I do?"
Don't send me away, I thought.
He looked at me again. "What do you want?"
"I want to taste an apple," I said. And your lips, I thought.
#28. I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.
#29. It seemed as natural as two blades of grass brushing each other in the wind.
#30. The fear of being noticed after a hundred years disappears as I look into a pair of autumn-colored eyes.
#31. I would court you with a passion, if things were different.
#32. Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated.
#33. Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.
#34. Many worlds, but one God
His power is the sun in every land,
His forgiveness the moon watching over every night,
His love the star in every corner of the heavens.
#35. As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.
#36. To desperately hope," I whispered
James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe.
#37. I would do anything to stay beside you forever.
#38. I was floating on a river of calm, a leaf on a current.
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