Good Lines
June 25, 2012 § 7 Comments
Most of my weekend was spent reading on my back porch, enjoying the green around me. Many times I stumbled across a line so good I had to jump up to write it down in my folder of “little darlings” or add it to the collection on my bathroom mirror – where all the good lines go down. Here are a few:
From Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai, who’s novel in verse chronicles a young Vietnamese girl’s immigrant experience.
Breathe in, peaceful mind.
Breath out, peaceful smile.She strokes my back.
Chant, my daughter;
your whispers will bloom
and shelter you
from words
you need not hear.
From Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s novel The Shadow of the Wind:
A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
And from “Where Wings Could Be” by Susanna Childress:
What I need
from life: a few loves brilliant with return.
A nod to these writers.
The title of your next book could be “MyFolder Of LITTLE DARLINGS.”
I have definitely tried to write a few poems with this title – unfortunately I had to come to terms that it was more darling to me than anyone else….
I just put Inside Out & Back Again on hold at the library but I’m a little scared to read it. That line from Where Wings Could Be is beautiful.
are you intimidated because it’s poetry? Don’t be. I read it in a hour – it’s really moving and simple in a heartfelt way. Completely accessible.
No I meant I thought I would be depressed by the subject. But I like stories with its kind of theme.
oh, there are sad scenes to it, but it ends with hope.
I love the depth you find in life, and you articulate it so beautifully. Thank you for helping me make better sense of the way the world moves around me.