I’m out of words today. Tired. A little frazzled. Devoid of all pith.
So.
Let’s go elsewhere for inspiration, shall we? Maybe play a game of sorts? I’ll give you three quotes from things I’ve recently read. Then you do the same. OK?
Humor me, people. It’s this or poetry, and we did poetry last time. Although Neruda is never a bad idea.
Here goes:
…she laughed too knowingly and wore tight skirts and would end in an apartment in Elmont or Uniondale, married to the fiercest, sexiest boy, who’d carve the years straight into her skin with his tempers and habits.
–Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham
There were times for both of us, when I was writing too, when we could only claw ourselves back to sanity in the depths of each other’s skin in the dark of the night, desperate and mindless and hungry for something we couldn’t name.
–Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stott
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.
–Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
What’s keeping you from noticing the wallpaper’s on fire?
xo
Tasha
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…she laughed too knowingly and wore tight skirts and would end in an apartment in Elmont or Uniondale, married to the fiercest, sexiest boy, who’d carve the years straight into her skin with his tempers and habits.
This is beautiful. The power of words when they are crafted like this. I’m at a loss of what to say, I’m so moved.
And the quote about reading made me laugh because that’s me to a tee. My son used to gauge the book I was reading by the number of “Mom’s” he called out before I would answer.
by Lynn
on May 16th, 2008 at 6:38 am
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Cunningham blows me away. As usual with his stuff, the whole book is full of sentences that make you stop, breathless in awe.
Love rating books by number of Moms!
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Well, I can’t come up with three, but my dad just wrote this in his blog this week and it took me back a few paces…
God makes me stagger because I have no idea what in the world he is going to dare me to do next.
~Dave Medders, http://masjava.blogspot.com/
by Carrie
on May 16th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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I WISH I had something that kept me from staring at the walls. I’ve got three or four new books I’m looking forward to, but nothing’s lit me on fire lately. I know, I’m a party pooper for not playing… : )
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I sat up late to finished “Demons are a ghoul’s best friend” this week, does that count? It isn’t the kind of thing you can quote from, though…
by JennieB
on May 16th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
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And I guess I was so entralled with the quotes that I didn’t play either.
I just finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, and I’m angry that one of the characters turned out to be a death eater.
My other read is Corpse Pose by Diana Killian. I’ll probably have a few hours this weekend to finally finish it. But the book has kept me sane during a particular stressful week at work, so Thanks Diana!
Getting lost in AJ’s world during my lunch break was just what I needed to forget the test I had to take, the interview for a major promotion and the surprise wedding shower my team threw for me. I’m so glad it’s Friday.
by Lynn
on May 16th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
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Aw, Lynn, I didn’t realize you’re getting married! Congratulations!
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Actually, we got married in Vegas in between dart tourneyments at the wedding chapel the scalper on the court house steps sold us.
It works for us.
Next weekend our first camping trip here in Missouri.
by Lynn
on May 17th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
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