Friday, January 25, 2008

stayed home and thought of here


Should we have stayed home and thought of here? –Elizabeth Bishop

Don’t ask me any questions right now. I’m grumpy and I’ll probably make fun of you.

Carmen situated her mother between her knees and began massaging her tense shoulders. Carmen had strong hands. She felt like she was good at this. She heard a little hitch in her mother’s breathing, and she knew Christina was crying.
But she knew Christina was crying because she was happy, and that gave Carmen her own feeling of happiness unlike anything she’d felt in a long time. Pg. 191

The beautiful thing about getting someone to tell you what was wrong was that you could tell them something to make it a little better. Lena made a mental note that she should try it more often. Pg. 194

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