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I promised you a quote from one of my favorites read this year, The sky is everywhere by Jandy Nelson, because I didn't have any in my book review earlier. This book is about 17-year old Lennie who recently lost her sister and now she finds herself falling in love with a very special guy. She feels guilty and confused about these and all her other emotions because should't she just feel bad and grieve about her sister? It's a very emotional, funny and poetic read that I would recommend you put on your wishlist for Christmas;-)
At 4:48 p.m. on a Friday in April,
my sister was rehearsing the role of Juliet
and less than one minute later
she was dead.
To my astonishment, time didn't stop
with her heart.
People went to school, to work, to restaurants;
they crushed crackers into their clam chowder,
fretted over exams,
sang in their cars with the windows up.
For days and days, the rain beat its fists
on the roof of our house—
evidence of the terrible mistake
God had made.
Each morning, when I woke
I listened for the tireless pounding,
looked at the drear through the window
and was relieved
that at least the sun had the decency
to stay the hell away from us.
(Found on a piece of staff paper, spiked on a low branch, Flying Man's Gulch) (page 18)
Silje
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