Paper Towns
"'But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I just couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.'" She sits back down next to me, close, facing me, the fabric of our jeans touching without our knees actually touching. Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right."
I like this. I need to read this book.
ReplyDeleteThe first bit is being quoted from a book called 'The Bell Jar' which I have not read, but after seeing this quote put on my Amazon order list. But that quote from The Bell Jar is being quoted by a character named Margo in the novel by John Green named 'Paper Towns' which is (to put it simply) a deconstruction of the manic pixie dream girl stereotype. Right now Libby is borrowing the book from me, but when she is done, you can have it. :)
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