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Top 15 Laura Purcell Quotes (2024 Update)

Laura Purcell Quote: “How steadily he watched her. He was close enough for her to smell him: carbolic soap, cloves. Memory flickered like a tinderbox. She refused to let the flint spark.”

1. “How steadily he watched her. He was close enough for her to smell him: carbolic soap, cloves. Memory flickered like a tinderbox. She refused to let the flint spark.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “Madness, as we call it, manifests itself in many ways. People do not always wail and shriek as you say your mother did. But it does seem to run in families, I have observed, particularly through the female line. Hysteria – womb to womb. Diseased blood will out. There is no hiding from it, I am afraid.”

2. “Madness, as we call it, manifests itself in many ways. People do not always wail and shriek as you say your mother did. But it does seem to run in families, I have observed, particularly through the female line. Hysteria – womb to womb. Diseased blood will out. There is no hiding from it, I am afraid.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “Imprisonment was never the real punishment: it was the people you were stuck with. Lunatics were the worst; jabbering, yammering, moaning.”

3. “Imprisonment was never the real punishment: it was the people you were stuck with. Lunatics were the worst; jabbering, yammering, moaning.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “Anger has ever been a failing of mine. When it surges, it sings in my veins like a dram of gin. Any action seems possible, reasonable. It is only afterwards, when the fire fades, that I see the dark soot-stain of what I have done.”

4. “Anger has ever been a failing of mine. When it surges, it sings in my veins like a dram of gin. Any action seems possible, reasonable. It is only afterwards, when the fire fades, that I see the dark soot-stain of what I have done.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, miss. Charitable people like yourself saved my life. But I wish they’d thought a bit more about what I was to do with it, once it was safe.”

5. “I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, miss. Charitable people like yourself saved my life. But I wish they’d thought a bit more about what I was to do with it, once it was safe.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “Death, once conceived, was rapacious. It took all with it.”

6. “Death, once conceived, was rapacious. It took all with it.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “Wind creeps along the walls outside. It sounds like a woman, pouring hushed secrets into her lover’s ear.”

7. “Wind creeps along the walls outside. It sounds like a woman, pouring hushed secrets into her lover’s ear.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “Ignorant people always fancied that ghosts appeared as shrouded ghouls. Anyone who had suffered loss could tell them differently. Sounds and smells haunted with more persistence, dragged you backwards in a way nothing else could.”

8. “Ignorant people always fancied that ghosts appeared as shrouded ghouls. Anyone who had suffered loss could tell them differently. Sounds and smells haunted with more persistence, dragged you backwards in a way nothing else could.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “In the shade she looked like a lily; her pale skin and the gossamer veins beside her eyes.”

9. “In the shade she looked like a lily; her pale skin and the gossamer veins beside her eyes.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “She had an urge to confess everything: tell him about the splinters on Rupert’s neck; the nursery; the garret; the handprint; the eyes. But to speak of such things made them a farce. You could not explain fear; you could only feel it, roaring through the silence and striking your heart still.”

10. “She had an urge to confess everything: tell him about the splinters on Rupert’s neck; the nursery; the garret; the handprint; the eyes. But to speak of such things made them a farce. You could not explain fear; you could only feel it, roaring through the silence and striking your heart still.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “But instead I shared the fate of all girls who are poor of pocket: I was tied to my work, like a needle tethered by thread.”

11. “But instead I shared the fate of all girls who are poor of pocket: I was tied to my work, like a needle tethered by thread.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “She slumped down by the fireplace and sat with her legs stretched out, next to Jolyon. Or what passed for Jolyon: the cruel, blue-grey parody of him. She did not want to store this image of her boy: waxy and puffed; features imprinted with horror; vicious cuts to the dear skin. But she knew it would encroach, stealthily, and overwrite all the happier times. Death, once conceived, was rapacious. It took all with it.”

12. “She slumped down by the fireplace and sat with her legs stretched out, next to Jolyon. Or what passed for Jolyon: the cruel, blue-grey parody of him. She did not want to store this image of her boy: waxy and puffed; features imprinted with horror; vicious cuts to the dear skin. But she knew it would encroach, stealthily, and overwrite all the happier times. Death, once conceived, was rapacious. It took all with it.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “I am more disturbed in my mind than I can possibly express. How could I be otherwise, with a recital such as this?”

13. “I am more disturbed in my mind than I can possibly express. How could I be otherwise, with a recital such as this?”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “That’s why Ma took in piecework and flowering from Mrs Metyard: to keep us afloat. Pa always used that term, afloat. And it seemed to me Pa did float – he kept his head above the water and painted his pictures. Beneath was Ma, kicking through dirt and reeds.”

14. “That’s why Ma took in piecework and flowering from Mrs Metyard: to keep us afloat. Pa always used that term, afloat. And it seemed to me Pa did float – he kept his head above the water and painted his pictures. Beneath was Ma, kicking through dirt and reeds.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “You could not explain fear; you could only feel it, roaring through the silence and striking your heart still.”

15. “You could not explain fear; you could only feel it, roaring through the silence and striking your heart still.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “But then I have noted that murderous thoughts seldom trouble the pretty and the fashionable.”

16. “But then I have noted that murderous thoughts seldom trouble the pretty and the fashionable.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “In his eyes she saw the gleam of interest. This disturbed her more than the attendant’s scowl.”

17. “In his eyes she saw the gleam of interest. This disturbed her more than the attendant’s scowl.”

— Laura Purcell

Laura Purcell Quote: “Imprisonment was never the real punishment: it was the people you were stuck with.”

18. “Imprisonment was never the real punishment: it was the people you were stuck with.”

— Laura Purcell

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