Quote by Laura Whitcomb Download Open image ““Be a sparrow, I told myself. Be silent and fly away. No one will bother you if you disappear.”” — Laura Whitcomb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Shoo the sparrow away and get on with supper. This is the first part of my new life strategy.” — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“You are a sparrow,” he said. “You use up your energy from one moment to the next. On folly. On fear. On people who don’t mean anything. What are you looking for?” I cried even harder, but at the same time I began to feel irritated. He didn’t even know me, for Pete’s sake. And if I was going to… — J.S. Drangsholt Copy Share
“My mind, which I used to consider a great ally, has turned into a sparrow on a leash.” — Dessa Copy Share Image
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“Wouldn’t that be nice? To not exist? To just up and vanish in the night? To fly away? My next life I want to… — D.M. Pulley Copy Share Image
“A Letter from a Muse to Her Poet: Dear sir, I was called away and couldn’t bring you, but now I feel haunted. I know that sometimes you felt I was a part of you and that losing me would leave a hole in your heart, but that’s not true. I liked to pretend I was the core of your… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share
To desperately hope," I whispered James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe. — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“The fear of being noticed after a hundred years disappears as I look into a pair of autumn-colored eyes.” — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share
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… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“I would court you with a passion, if things were different. You’d never get me off your porch swing.” — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“in the wings, as often mothers and grandmothers are, ready to catch the children should they need saving,” — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“Dear sir: twelve hours is as twelve years to me. I imagine you in your home, smiling, thinking of me. That I am your… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.” — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image