Dear friend, (whoever you are)
Last post I talked about “enchanting” people. Then I came across a passage in another book I really liked (the passage, not the book. Not saying the book was bad, just that I haven’t finished it yet). The book was SMACK by Melvin Burgess and this is what it said:
“Did you ever see someone and think straightaway, I want to be that person? I want to look like her and think like her and have the same effect as she does…you know? This girl—nothing mattered to her. All the rules, all the things you do do and don’t do, the manners, everything—she had none of that. If she didn’t like it she just didn’t do it. If she did it, it was good. She didn’t have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.”
Now that girl, she was an enchanting person, dear friend, and I quiet enjoyed reading that passage about her (she already enchants me, as the reader).
Until next time,
Anonymous Writer
P.s. I’d like to say that I don’t own SMACK and I don’t necessarily support or approve of anything in the book, or the girl described above’s decisions. I just liked the quote.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about the book, but I like the quote all the same. I like the name of this blog..
ReplyDelete((if you look down the pages in mine i do a similar format Dear _____ From ______ to emotions, inanimate objects, people, etc.))
Have a good day!
I love this book and I love basically everything said/about this book.
ReplyDeleteSMACK definetly is one of the best books out there because it's one of those books that states things that are problems now and the fact that Burgess writes his own story with those problems is brilliant!
He isn't afraid to talk about things that other authors might think twice about!
Definately worth reading! (:
I love that quote also
Most of the words and sentences in this book really get you to think about things
Good choice of book!