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1 " 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 one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks. "
― Laura Whitcomb , A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1)
2 " It was all real and blazing with detail. But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper. "
3 " As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown. "
4 " A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages "
5 " I studied a crescent moon hung crooked in a plum purple sky and thought about what it would be like to truly be seen. "
6 " I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real. "
7 " Perhaps I couldn’t tickle the inside of his ear, but I could reach the mysterious curves of his mind. "
8 " 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, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated. "
9 " I would court you with a passion, if things were different. "
10 " Dear sir: twelve hours is as twelve years to me. I imagine you in your home, smiling, thinking of me. 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 hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you, every moment we're apart. "
11 " Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving. "
― Laura Whitcomb , The Fetch
12 " To desperately hope," I whisperedJames let out a breath. "To gratefully believe. "
13 " Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead. "
14 " 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 hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart. "
15 " 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. "
16 " Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping. "
17 " Just walk up to your hell & give it a push. Run through it & i'll be waiting on the other side. "
18 " i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing. "
19 " Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. "
20 " 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. "
