Laura Whitcomb

“A Letter from a Muse to Her Poet: Dear sir, I was called away and couldn’t bring you, but now I feel…

— Laura Whitcomb

To desperately hope," I whispered James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe.

— Laura Whitcomb

“The fear of being noticed after a hundred years disappears as I look into a pair of autumn-colored eyes.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“Be a sparrow, I told myself. Be silent and fly away. No one will bother you if you disappear.”

— Laura Whitcomb

The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.…

— Laura Whitcomb

That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You…

— Laura Whitcomb

“I would court you with a passion, if things were different.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“I would court you with a passion, if things were different. You’d never get me off your porch swing.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“in the wings, as often mothers and grandmothers are, ready to catch the children should they need saving,”

— Laura Whitcomb

Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love…

— Laura Whitcomb

“Dear sir: twelve hours is as twelve years to me. I imagine you in your home, smiling, thinking of me. That I…

— Laura Whitcomb

Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds…

— Laura Whitcomb

“I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all…

— Laura Whitcomb

“The library smells like old books-a thousand leather doorways into other worlds." "Dear sir, I was called away and couldn't bring you,…

— Laura Whitcomb

“Time is a ribbon, a delicate organdy, so thin that you can see through it to the layer of time below and…

— Laura Whitcomb

Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

— Laura Whitcomb

“I was floating on a river of calm, a leaf on a current.”

— Laura Whitcomb

Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.

— Laura Whitcomb

“The material was wrinkled, yet even in the low light it remembered the shape of two bodies.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“As his flesh touched my spirit, the feeling of falling turned into a feeling of flying. I was soaring through time toward…

— Laura Whitcomb

“It seemed as if humans had lost the ability to make their own fun. The more they were gifted with inventions, the…

— Laura Whitcomb

Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.

— Laura Whitcomb

“Just walk up to your hell & give it a push. Run through it & i'll be waiting on the other side.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“As I watched that single thread of lightning billow through the water above me like the aurora borealis, I imagined the heavy…

— Laura Whitcomb

“About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page. "Will you…

— Laura Whitcomb