Laura Purcell > Quotes

“We are afraid of the things inside us - be they memories, sickness or sinful urges.”
― Laura Purcell

“She'll flare bright and burn herself out like a match. (p. 146)”
― Laura Purcell, The Whispering Muse

“Existence as a society wife must be akin to standing in a bog. That slow, sinking sensation. I would be dragged down day by day, grow vacuous and preoccupied with frivolity like those around me. I should begin to resemble Papa or - God forbid - Mrs Pearce. At least with David I may strive to be a better person, practical and helpful to my fallen creatures.”
― Laura Purcell, The Corset

“Please tell me you saw him. Say you glimpsed the brightest star in the firmament before it burned out. (p. 21)”
― Laura Purcell, The Whispering Muse

“Grief is a violent emotion, a sort of acid that eats away at the best parts of us.”
― Laura Purcell, The Corset

“You're not nothing! You're a person in your own right. (p. 243)”
― Laura Purcell, The Whispering Muse

“Notoriety is by no means a death sentence in the world of art.”
― Laura Purcell, The Corset

“You'll swallow this down, you'll keep being brave and pretending, though it's killing you inside. (p. 177)”
― Laura Purcell, The Whispering Muse

“You could not explain fear; you could only feel it”
― Laura Purcell

“My first reaction was a surge of love. Uncontrollable, the instinct of many years. I hated myself for that; hated him for making me feel it. (p. 91)”
― Laura Purcell, The Whispering Muse

“You'll call me heartless for thinking such thoughts. Maybe I was: a cavity yawned in my ribs, where once I'd felt a heart beat back.”
― Laura Purcell, The Corset

“Gentlemen want a nasty woman at heart. (p. 89)”
― Laura Purcell, The Whispering Muse

“But what would I say? That he made our marriage a mockery? That I realise I no longer hold his heart, or even his loyalty? (p. 146)”
― Laura Purcell, The Whispering Muse

“The gloom was all the more fearsome after a moment of illumination.”
― Laura Purcell

“Did evil have wants and needs? surely not, surely that would make it too human.”
― Laura Purcell

“You're real,' he said gently. 'And you're kind, and you've got spirit. Do you know, you might be the only part of the real world I actually like ?”
― Laura Purcell

“Give a man enough rope, and he'll hang himself. (p. 146)”
― Laura Purcell, The Whispering Muse

“I might set at the window in that tower there my chest covered in diamonds, and gaze over the hills, remembering my lost love.
A romantic picture, but utterly stupid. I should be bored after an hour.”
― Laura Purcell, The Corset

“How quickly it happened, the fizz and transformation from one state to the other. One moment the match was a stick with a proud white head; the next a charred, wasted thing with a forlorn appearance. Shrivelled.”
― Laura Purcell