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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave It was all real and blazing with detail. But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper. - Quote by Laura Whitcomb

It was all real and blazing with detail. But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper.

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Perhaps I couldn’t tickle the inside of his ear, but I could reach the mysterious curves of his mind.
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About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page."Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?" I inquired.He wrote and whispered the words aloud as he did. "I am in the library. It smells like old stuff.""It smells familiar," I suggested. "It smells like words." Because his left side was to me, I couldn't easily take his hand to write."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.He thought about this and then wrote with a smile, "I hate books.
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As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.
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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.
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