Thursday, October 29, 2009

The Lovely Bones

I just started re-reading one of my favorite books, "The Lovely Bones". It is probably one of the most heart-breaking and beautiful books I have ever read... I am going to insert one of my favorite passages from it. I encourage everyone to read it.

"Hours before I died, my mother hung on the refrigerator a picture that Buckley had drawn. In the drawing a thick blue line seperated the air and ground. In the days that followed I watched my family walk back and forth past the drawing and I became convinced that that thick blue line was a real place- an Inbetween, where heaven's horizon met Earth's. I wanted to go there into the cornflower blue of Crayola, the royal, the turquoise, the sky."
-The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold