Laura Whitcomb Quotes

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• The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a…
• Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.
• I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.
• Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.
• To desperately hope," I whispered James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe.
• 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…
• 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…
• i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.
• 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,…
• 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…
• I would do anything to stay beside you forever.
• 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.
• It´s hard to have you with me but not to be able to take your hand or kiss you -James
• ...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…
• 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…
• Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.
• Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.
• 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,…

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