Book of Orlando Quotes

“As a spirit, I could be your angel. But a body made a demon out of me.”
― Laura Lascarso, Book of Orlando

“Spartan in its design, with exterior and interior columns adorned by several white diaphanous curtains that billowed elegantly in the sea breeze.”
― Laura Lascarso, Book of Orlando

“The only thing I could coherently say was your name, so I said it, over and over again. Like breathing, your name was a sound my soul made, begging for completion.”
― Laura Lascarso, Book of Orlando

“Like I’d been pounded by the waves, then carried to shore and caressed by the shallow water.”
― Laura Lascarso, Book of Orlando

“You were my beautiful boy. My one and only treasure.”
― Laura Lascarso, Book of Orlando

“Your racing heart drummed a frantic rhythm in your chest as I waited patiently for you to speak. Even at your young age, you understood that my countenance defied the natural law, even if it wasn’t something you could articulate.”
― Laura Lascarso, Book of Orlando

“I could use a push.” “You’re going to have to hold on,” you said, and I was a bit unsettled. A human child who could both see my specter and hear my voice? You were a marvel.”
― Laura Lascarso, Book of Orlando

“It was on that particularly bleak day, in the summer of 1986, when I encountered you on an empty playground in the middle of a housing project known as Imperial Palms.”
― Laura Lascarso, Book of Orlando