Desert Quote by 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 haunted. I…

— 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. I feel…

— 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 are my…

— 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 or even…

— Laura Whitcomb

“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

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