Jessica Brockmole Quotes & Sayings

... that a letter isn't always just a letter. Words on page can drench the soul. — Jessica Brockmole

You're my breath, my light, the one my heart flies towards. — Jessica Brockmole

Pedagogy and Equality are always trumped by Maternity. — Jessica Brockmole

Let me hold you a little while longer. — Jessica Brockmole

Me - the poet - lost for words. — Jessica Brockmole

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

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

Perhaps this isn't your boat. Perhaps it doesn't sail where you want to go. — Jessica Brockmole

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

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

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

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

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. — Jessica Brockmole

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

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

As tired as I am, Sue, my dreams are always of you. — Jessica Brockmole

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

Words on the page can drench the soul. — Jessica Brockmole

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

You of all people, who seem to know things about me before I myself do. You know this is right. — Jessica Brockmole