Bonus!
In addition to all my summer reading I have been scouring the internet for a poem/quote/etc. to read at my best friend's wedding next weekend. I looked at a bunch of quotes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez first, well, just because. I won't be using this one, but it reminded me how much I loved his book Love in the Time of Cholera, and just like The Book Thief, it is a story whose characters sit in my soul long after reading. In the spirit of being moved by words today, I thought I would share how the great Gabo so perfectly describes true love.
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
Not a kids book, I know, but I also know that those who read this blog love books. So, there ya go. Add that to your bucket list of books to read, and don't even bother seeing the movie.
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
Not a kids book, I know, but I also know that those who read this blog love books. So, there ya go. Add that to your bucket list of books to read, and don't even bother seeing the movie.
Comments
Post a Comment