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

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Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Laura Whitcomb

#Real Quotes #Eye Quotes #Oasis Quotes

“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”
“This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.”
“I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.”
“What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke”
“I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!”
“I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.”
“Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed.”

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