4 Quotes by Laura Purcell

You could not explain fear; you could only feel it, roaring through the silence and striking your heart still.

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, miss. Charitable people like yourself saved my life. But I wish they’d thought a bit more about what I was to do with it, once it was safe.

I do not comprehend how my feet can ever bear to do it: how they turn and walk away from him without a stumble. And my eyes! What agonies it costs them to look upon something else, when they know that he is there.

In the shade she looked like a lily; her pale skin and the gossamer veins beside her eyes.