Under the Light Quotes

“Be a sparrow, I told myself. Be silent and fly away. No one will bother you if you disappear.”
― Laura Whitcomb, Under the Light

“As I watched that single thread of lightning billow through the water above me like the aurora borealis, I imagined the heavy cord of time stretching away from me in the water like the hard, thick rope on a great ship.”
― Laura Whitcomb, Under the Light

“Time is a ribbon, a delicate organdy, so thin that you can see through it to the layer of time below and the layer above. Moments overlapping, lying on top of each other.”
― Laura Whitcomb, Under the Light

“The material was wrinkled, yet even in the low light it remembered the shape of two bodies.”
― Laura Whitcomb, Under the Light

“Perhaps it wasn't that time had frozen but that it was now moving at the pace of infinity. A moment now becomes a century.”
― Laura Whitcomb, Under the Light

“I was floating on a river of calm, a leaf on a current.”
― Laura Whitcomb, Under the Light

“The fear of being noticed after a hundred years disappears as I look into a pair of autumn-colored eyes.”
― Laura Whitcomb, Under the Light