Beckoning Quotes

“I want to stay on the back porch while the world tilts toward sleep, until what I love misses me, and calls me in.”
― Dorianne Laux

“Sister Agnes had called it “true love’s kiss.” I didn’t know if such a kiss was somehow enchanted. More likely the kiss was a summoning, a beckoning, a pleading that resonated deep within the soul of the dying, urging that person to fight back and return to the arms of the one giving the kiss.”
― Jody Hedlund, Always

“I could almost see the drumbeats against his skin, beckoning him to rejoin the crowd.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“In this garden full of asps, he was a pitcher plant, beckoning them to a tumble. Sometimes there was a part of him that wanted to scream: Look at me. See what I am. See what I've done.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne