27 Quotes by Laura Whitcomb

As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.

A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages

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 lift my bag."My God," he said. "What happened?""I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library.

I studied a crescent moon hung crooked in a plum purple sky and thought about what it would be like to truly be seen.

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

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 was all real and blazing with detail. But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper.

Perhaps I couldn’t tickle the inside of his ear, but I could reach the mysterious curves of his mind.

The library smells like old books-a thousand leather doorways into other worlds.""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... Please forgive me... I am sorry that I didn't say goodbye.