Letters from Skye Quotes

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“You're my breath, my light, the one my heart flies towards.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“... that a letter isn't always just a letter. Words on page can drench the soul.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“I think all of the experience in the world couldn't prepare someone for the very first time they are with a person they love.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“You glided over to me and, as I was struggling to think of something intelligent to say, you said "There you are". I often think of that, Sue. Here I am. No matter where I am in the world, "Here I am".”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“Don't let me go off to the front without having touched you for the first time, without having heard your voice say my name. Don't let me go off to the front without a memory of you in my heart.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“As tired as I am, Sue, my dreams are always of you.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“Perhaps this isn't your boat. Perhaps it doesn't sail where you want to go.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“If you knew how it feels to run after someone for a brief snatch of time, how the world stops spinning, just for a moment, when you hold them in your arms, and then starts again so fast that you fall to the ground, dizzy. If you knew how every hello hurts more than a hundred goodbyes.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“Me - the poet - lost for words.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“Let me hold you a little while longer.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“The very sound of our voices was so odd. So banal. I confess I couldn't wait to get back to my notepaper and pen to tell you how I felt.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“If I wasn't certain you were bigger than my thumb, I should've guessed your dress was fashioned from rose petals and spiders' web.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“You of all people, who seem to know things about me before I myself do. You know this is right.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“It is marvelous to see the raw play of emotions on the face of a child. No trying to conceal any feeling or disguise one emotion as something else.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“Please don’t give away your heart without realizing it, because, my sweet girl, you may never get it back.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“I should have told you, should've taught you to steel your heart. Taught you that a letter isn't always just a letter. Words on the page can drench the soul. If only you knew.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“I know that you are not a man content to wait behind and just watch as the ferry chugs away. But perhaps this isn’t your boat. Perhaps it doesn’t sail where you want to go. You’ll make the right decision. I think you already know what it is.    E”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“You need to decide if you want to be on the ferry when it sets off or if you are happier back on the sturdy pier.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“Words on the page can drench the soul.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“Si me detuviera a recordar cómo te sientes cuando te agazapas bajo el fuego de las ametralladoras, sin nada que se interponga frente a las balas salvo tu casco y tus manos entrelazadas en la nuca; si me detuviera a recordar la cantidad de kilómetros que recorrimos penosamente sólo para ver cómo los chicos de delante pisaban una mina; si me detuviera a recordar cómo me agachaba en la oscuridad, sin saber si el silbido de la siguiente bomba llevaría mi nombre; si me detuviera a recordar los comentarios en voz baja de los muchachos de alrededor, que no sabían que yo había estado allí arriba, haciendo mi trabajo…, la verdad es que no conseguiría seguir adelante. Tengo que repetirme a mí mismo que volveré a estar contigo en un abrir y cerrar de ojos. No puedo hacer más.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“Thinking is good. It's what separates humans from cockroaches.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“Мечтаех да пътувам, да уча, да срещна човек, който чете и разбира Луис Карол.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“Pedagogy and Equality are always trumped by Maternity.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“And then all this talk of love and marriage out of nowhere? It's the war talking. I know; I've seen it. They head off, invincible, feeling as if the future is a golden pool before them, ready to dive into. And then something happens - a bomb, a sprained wrist, a bullet that whizzes by too close for comfort - and suddenly they are grabbing for whatever they can hold onto.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“La guerra es impulsiva, me dijo, y después lo único que te quedan son fantasmas.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye