Anyway- I stayed up REALLY late last night reading it. I read this paragraph three times:
"You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go- into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there, you're someplace else where there is blue sky and a road you don't recognize. If you squint your eyes, you think you see him, in the shadows, beyond the trees. You always imagine that you see him, but he's never there. It's only his spirit, that's what's there beneath the bed when you kiss your husband, there when you send your daughter off to school. It's in your coffee cup, your bathwater, your tears. Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done."
— Alice Hoffman (Here on Earth)
Makes you want to read the book huh?
— Alice Hoffman (Here on Earth)
Makes you want to read the book huh?
8 comments:
Wow...makes me have all sorts of thoughts about life....good one!! ;)
Umm... yeah. Ok...Off to Good Reads to add this one...
No it does not make me want to read it. I can only read trash, filth (not too much filth), smut right now. If it doesn't have a dude in a kilt on the front or say something like this on the back then forget it:
After eight hundred years as a bachelor, is he ready to turn a volatile attraction into a lasting love affair?* See, smut. lol
*I must give credit. From The Rogue Hunter by Lynsay Sands
Very intriguing.
But I'm serious- I read Book 3 of the Chronicles of Narnia and ignored EVERYTHING til I was done! Not good....!
Uh...yeah! Made me want to read it! I just forwarded this blog to my book club list. Maybe they'll want to read it too! Thanks for sharing!
I might just pick it up off my shelf now. I have had it sitting there for about ugh, 5 years now :).
Thanks Eve!
Oooo what a tease!
I'll have to add this to my 'must' list :)
TFS!
Hey Eve, stop by my blog. There is an award awaiting your pickup. Thank you for inspiring me to keep learning to scrap!!!!!
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