Rally was obsessed with what made people wonderful. It was usually what she least expected, but she knew the truth when she found it. In Dublin she'd hoped to meet blue-eyed men, raconteurs who would buy her pints and tell her stories. Instead, it was the Irishwomen who fascinated Rally, the young ones with babies, or the ones with pale skin and cigarettes.
In Montana, Rally had talked to countless cowboys - men with blue jeans and money - hoping to sniff out the spirit of the West for a piece she was writing. But it was in Glacier National Park, listening to a park ranger named Russ, a little barrel of a fellow with a lisp, that Rally felt the stubborn inconsequence of men in the wild. What startled Rally, and kept her traveling, was this: when the wonder of an individual human being struck her - when an Irishwoman took smoke in her mouth, or a park ranger's voice broke - Rally felt a throb of loneliness and wanted to kiss that person...to entwine her solitude with his.
~David Schickler
Kissing in Manhattan
Has anything seemingly mundane ever made you feel an extreme emotion?
I just love that first line!
ReplyDeleteStephanie - It's a beautiful quote isn't it? You should read the book.
ReplyDeleteThere have been many times when I'd read something that wouldn't seem worthy of much notice to other people but caused a flood of emotions in me so I know exactly how it feels. To be honest, I think this might be the reason why I read so much, in search of quotes such as this one because i never know when or where I'll find them.
ReplyDeleteLilly - Exactly!
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